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Jurassic Coast

Taken from the cliff tops in Dorset 2013 Olympus E-520 DSLR
The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site which is more popularly known as the Juras...
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Taken from the cliff tops in Dorset 2013 Olympus E-520 DSLR
The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site which is more popularly known as the Jurassic Coast is England’s first and only natural geological World Heritage Site. The Site is a 95 mile stretch of the south coast from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland in Dorset. The name Jurassic Coast comes from the best known of the geological periods found within it, but in fact the Site includes rocks from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The different rocks tell a fascinating story from ancient deserts to tropical seas throughout the Mesozoic era, between 250 million and 65 million years ago.
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