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[[Image:Egmont bight from freshwater steps promontory dorset.jpg|right|thumb|Looking down on the beach at Egmont Bight]] |
[[Image:Egmont bight from freshwater steps promontory dorset.jpg|right|thumb|Looking down on the beach at Egmont Bight]] |
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'''Egmont Bight''' is a shallow embayment at the southern end of the Encombe valley in [[Dorset]], [[ |
'''Egmont Bight''' is a shallow embayment at the southern end of the Encombe valley in [[Dorset]], England. It is part of the [[Jurassic Coast]]. |
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==Geology== |
==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]] |
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On foot the stony beach is only accessible at low tide by walking {{convert|1.0|km|mi|1|adj=on}} west around Egmont Point from the beach at [[Chapman's Pool]]. There is no safe route down from the clifftop [[South West Coast Path|coast path]], across Houns-tout cliff, nor around the Freshwater Steps promontory at the beach's western end. |
On foot the stony beach is only accessible at low tide by walking {{convert|1.0|km|mi|1|adj=on}} west around '''Egmont Point''' from the beach at [[Chapman's Pool]]. There is no safe route down from the clifftop [[South West Coast Path|coast path]], across Houns-tout cliff, nor around the Freshwater Steps promontory at the beach's western end. |
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The [[Jurassic Coast]] stretches over a distance of {{convert|153|km|mi|0}}, from [[Orcombe Point]] near [[Exmouth, Devon|Exmouth]], in the west, to [[Old Harry Rocks]] on the [[Isle of Purbeck]], in the east <ref name="UNESCO">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2001 | url = http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1029 | title = Dorset and East Devon Coast | format = | work = | publisher = UNESCO World Heritage Centre | accessdate = 2007-01-14}}</ref>. The coastal exposures along the coastline provide a continuous sequence of [[Triassic]], [[Jurassic]] and [[Cretaceous]] rock formations spanning approximately 185 million years of the Earths history. The localities along the Jurassic Coast includes a large range of important [[fossil]] zones. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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* [[List of Dorset beaches]] |
* [[List of Dorset beaches]] |
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==Gallery== |
==Gallery== |
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Image:Egmont bight dorset.jpg|Egmont Bight |
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Image:Beach at egmont bight dorset.jpg|Stony beach, Egmont Bight |
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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.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Gallery[edit]
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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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