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==Geology== |
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The bay exposes good sections of Upper Kimmeridge shale and mudstone, with some [[bituminous shale]] and some small calcareous nodules.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Chapmans-Pool.htm#Locations-Egmont-Bight | title=West, I.M. (2007) Chapman's Pool (Chapmans Pool), Houns-tout and Egmont Bight, Kimmeridge region, Dorset; Geology of the Wessex Coast | |
The bay exposes good sections of Upper Kimmeridge shale and mudstone, with some [[bituminous shale]] and some small calcareous nodules.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Chapmans-Pool.htm#Locations-Egmont-Bight | title=West, I.M. (2007) Chapman's Pool (Chapmans Pool), Houns-tout and Egmont Bight, Kimmeridge region, Dorset; Geology of the Wessex Coast | access-date=2008-10-26}}</ref> |
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[[File:Egmont Point from St Aldhelm's Head.JPG|thumb|Egmont Point, seen from St Aldhelm's Head]] |
[[File:Egmont Point from St Aldhelm's Head.JPG|thumb|Egmont Point, seen from St Aldhelm's Head]] |
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[[Category:Hills of Dorset]] |
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Latest revision as of 22:49, 21 January 2021
Egmont Bight is a shallow embayment at the southern end of the Encombe valley in Dorset, England. It is part of the Jurassic Coast.
Geology[edit]
The bay exposes good sections of Upper Kimmeridge shale and mudstone, with some bituminous shale and some small calcareous nodules.[1]
On foot the stony beach is only accessible at low tide by walking 1.0-kilometre (0.6 mi) west around Egmont Point from the beach at Chapman's Pool. There is no safe route down from the clifftop coast path, across Houns-tout cliff, nor around the Freshwater Steps promontory at the beach's western end.
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Egmont Bight
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Stony beach, Egmont Bight
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East end of the beach
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West end of the beach
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East side of the small Freshwater Steps promontory
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Cliff-fall of shale on the beach
50°35′42″N 2°4′38″W / 50.59500°N 2.07722°W
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