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83 relations: Ammonoidea, Amphibian, BBC, Biodiversity, Blue Lias, Bovington Camp, Branscombe, Bridport, Budleigh Salterton, Burton Bradstock, Cephalopod, Charmouth, Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, Chesil Beach, Concordant coastline, Cove, Cretaceous, Crustacean, Cyatheales, Cycad, Discordant coastline, Dorset, Durdle Door, East Devon, Echinoderm, English Channel, Erosion, Exmouth, Extinction, Field research, Fish, Fold (geology), Fossil, Geology, Georges Cuvier, Golden Cap, Ichthyosaur, Insect, Isle of Portland, Jurassic, Kimmeridge, Ladram Bay, Landslide, List of places on the Jurassic Coast, Lulworth Cove, Lyme Regis, Mammal, Mary Anning, Mesozoic, Ministry of Defence, ..., Mollusca, MSC Napoli, Natural arch, Old Harry Rocks, Orcombe Point, Paleontology, Pinophyta, Plesiosauria, Portland Harbour, Portland stone, Pterosaur, Quartzite, Ramsar Convention, Reptile, Royal Navy, Shoal, Sidmouth, South West Coast Path, St Alban's Head, Stack (geology), Storm beach, Studland, Swanage, The Spittles, Tied island, Tombolo, Triassic, Tyneham, UNESCO, University of Southampton, West Bay, Dorset, World Heritage site, World War II. Expand index (33 more) »
Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are an extinct group of marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Blue Lias
The Blue Lias is a geologic formation in southern, eastern and western England and parts of South Wales, part of the Lias Group.
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Bovington Camp
Bovington Camp is a British Army military base in Dorset, England.
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Branscombe
Branscombe is a village in the East Devon district of the English county of Devon.
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Bridport
Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker.
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Budleigh Salterton
Budleigh Salterton is a small town on the coast in East Devon, England, south-east of Exeter.
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Burton Bradstock
Burton Bradstock is a village and civil parish in West Dorset, England, situated approximately southeast of Bridport and inland from the English Channel at Chesil Beach.
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Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.
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Charmouth
Charmouth is a village and civil parish at the mouth of the River Char in West Dorset, England.
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Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre
The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England.
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Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach, sometimes called Chesil Bank, in Dorset, southern England is one of three major shingle structures in Britain.
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Concordant coastline
A concordant, longitudinal, or Pacific type coastline occurs where beds, or layers, of differing rock types are folded into ridges that run parallel to the coast.
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Cove
A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Cyatheales
The order Cyatheales, which includes the tree ferns, is a taxonomic division of the fern class, Polypodiopsida.
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Cycad
Cycads are seed plants with a long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today.
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Discordant coastline
A discordant coastline occurs where bands of different rock type run perpendicular to the coast.
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Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.
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Durdle Door
Durdle Door (sometimes written Durdle Dor) is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England.
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East Devon
East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.
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Echinoderm
Echinoderm is the common name given to any member of the phylum Echinodermata (from Ancient Greek, ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin") of marine animals.
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English Channel
The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Exmouth
Exmouth is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Field research
Field research or fieldwork is the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fold (geology)
A geological fold occurs when one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of permanent deformation.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
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Golden Cap
Golden Cap is a hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England.
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Ichthyosaur
Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard" – ιχθυς or ichthys meaning "fish" and σαυρος or sauros meaning "lizard") are large marine reptiles.
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Insect
Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.
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Isle of Portland
The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Kimmeridge
Kimmeridge is a small village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England.
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Ladram Bay
Ladram Bay is a secluded bay with pebble beach, between the coastal towns of Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth, on the south coast of Devon, England.
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Landslide
The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.
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List of places on the Jurassic Coast
The following is a list of places on the Jurassic Coast in southern England, in East Devon and Dorset, from west to east.
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Lulworth Cove
Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England.
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Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Mary Anning
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.
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Ministry of Defence
A Ministry of Defence or Defense (see spelling differences), also known as a Department of Defence or Defense, is the common name for a part of the government found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments, responsible for matters of defence.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.
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MSC Napoli
MSC Napoli was a United Kingdom-flagged container ship that was deliberately broken up by salvors after she ran into difficulty in the English Channel on 18 January 2007.
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Natural arch
A natural arch, natural bridge, or (less commonly) rock arch is a natural rock formation where an arch has formed with an opening underneath.
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Old Harry Rocks
Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England.
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Orcombe Point
Orcombe Point is a coastal feature near Exmouth, Devon, on the south coast of England.
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Paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Pinophyta
The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.
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Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and Sauria) or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles (marine Sauropsida), belonging to the Sauropterygia.
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Portland Harbour
Portland Harbour is located beside the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England.
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Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.
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Quartzite
Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
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Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and earth sciences, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface.
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Sidmouth
Sidmouth is a town situated on the English Channel coast in Devon, South West England, east-southeast of Exeter.
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South West Coast Path
The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail.
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St Alban's Head
St Alban's Head (corruption of St Aldhelms Head) is a headland located southwest of Swanage, on the coast of Dorset, England.
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Stack (geology)
A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.
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Storm beach
A storm beach is a beach affected by particularly fierce waves, usually with a very long fetch.
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Studland
Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset.
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Swanage
Swanage is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England.
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The Spittles
The Spittles is an area of coastal cliff in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England.
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Tied island
Tied islands, or land-tied islands as they are often known, are landforms consisting of an island that is connected to land only by a tombolo: a spit of beach materials connected to land at both ends.
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Tombolo
A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, derived from the Latin tumulus, meaning 'mound', and sometimes translated as ayre, is a deposition landform in which an island is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar.
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Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.
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Tyneham
Tyneham is a ghost village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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University of Southampton
The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters) is a research university located in Southampton, England.
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West Bay, Dorset
West Bay, also known as Bridport Harbour, is a small harbour settlement and resort on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, sited at the mouth of the River Brit approximately south of Bridport.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Coast
