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The Geography Department |
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Osmington Mills, Dorset April 2006
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Rock ribs and the skeleton of a landslip's toe can be seen to the west from the car park of the 'Smugglers Inn'. |
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Access to the beach from the path near the pub car park has been lost due to landslips, which cover the head of the beach. I made it down by scrambling down via the waterfall, onto the cobbles! |
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The waterfall marks the last two feet of vertical fall for the stream at Osmington Mills. |
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The beach is littered by blocks brought down by the landslips ... and provide a convenient place for silicon sunbathers! |
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A bed of cobbles makes way for vertical-dipping, but planet-off, strata with the Isle of Portland on the horizon. |
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The foreshore looking over the Black Head Ledges and Black Head (the cliff) Go to Ian West on Osmington Bay for the geology. |
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This landslip has brought down clays and sands, and, in places, this deposit has been covered by beach cobbles, that have presumably been thrown up and over the toe of the landslide. |
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Last views of Osmington beach, Black Head, the distinctive landslip toe remains and the landslip of Kimmeridge clay with its septaria. |
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