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Kimmeridge Bay |
Chesil Beach - 1998 storms August 2000 April 2006 April 2007
Durdle Door - April 2006 April 2007
Lulworth Cove Colchester VIth Form College AS Fieldwork Oct 2001 Lulworth Cove 4 April 2007 am. Lulworth Cove 4 April 2007 pm.
West Bay harbour engineering works Feb 2004 West Bay harbour defence works, October 2004 West Bay, harbour and cliffs, August 2005 White Nothe April 2006
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At Gaulter Gap, over an Easter holiday, a fair crowd of cars in the car park, reached by a private road (charge £2 in 1996). There was a broad range of visitors, with a strong contingent of walkers peppering the majority, who came to enjoy the beach. |
The cliffs of Kimmeridge Bay with their level-bedded Lower Kimmeridge clays contrast with the slumped material of the foreground. The central east-west chalk ridge of the Isle of Purbeck marks the skyline. Behind the cliffs, on the left of the photo, is the Kimmeridge oil well - a real 'nodding donkey' in the Dorset countryside! The cliffs are a mixture of crumbly clay, and being more resistant, the small overhangs of bituminous shale. Harder still is the stone band dolomite, which makes up the wave-cut platform. |
Looking east into Kimmeridge Bay from GR899788. the stony and narrow beach is extended by the wave-cut platform. |
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This amazing wave-cut platform is Broad Bench. The photograph is taken from 897791, looking south from the path leading to Tyneham Cap, on the way to Gad Cliff.
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Approaching Kimmeridge Bay and looking towards the west and Gadd Cliffs.
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A very low state of tide revealed extensive sections of flat rock, left, whilst debris from the shale cliffs cover the immediate foreshore, right. |
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Kimmeridge Bay and Clavell Tower, now re-erected inland of its original location as its loss to cliff erosion was imminent. |
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From Washing Ledge, one of the dolomite bands, along the foreshore. In the centre and on the right the bands are still dolomite, but termed 'White rock' bands. |
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Coasts Kimmeridge Bay Gaulter Gap Dorset Purbeck Erosion Oil Well Geology Coasts Washing ledge Dolomite Erosion Wave Cut Platform Tourism Clavell Tower
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Dr Ian West's Field Trip to Kimmeridge http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Kimmeridge-Bay.htm |
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