. . . stretches for 95 miles from East Devon and all along the Dorset coastline. It isn’t just Jurassic, parts are Triassic and Cretaceous, each with different rock types. It’s a fossil hunters paradise, especially after one of the frequent landslides, with Charmouth and Lyme Regis areas the most likely places to find a little gem.
My end of the Jurassic coast is Exmouth, the furthest point West, where we have red sandstone that stretches along past a couple of estuaries and then abruptly changes to chalk at Beer and Lyme Regis. At Lyme you can look one direction and see chalk cliffs and east towards Charmouth, where the fresh landslides reveal fossils, in soft dark, grey, rock that feels almost like clay at times. Chalky stuff returns at Durdle Door and Lulworth.
So this is the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, a geological walk back through INFINITEÂ time and its my entry for this weeks photo challenge, as well as an excuse to show off the beautiful of South West of England!
Join in at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/photo-challenge-infinite/
Lucid Gypsy 
What a great post ! The ages are Infinite. I would love to walk and find fossils. How cool!
These are all stupendous photos. The first one is my favourite. To see all the layers is mind-boggling and so colourful. 🙂
Every one of these is lovely, but the first is my favorite. It’s just in a class all by itself.
Such beautiful pictures, such a beautiful place. The first one, with the tiny waterfalls, is lovely, but the photo that made me lean back, whisper “Wow!”, and stare for several minutes was the fourth one, the picture of ammonites on the beach. Wow.
Wonderful photos on a fabulous subject, rocks and fossils are fascinating …. we just saw an excellent program about the movements of the earth’s crust, called The Rise of the Continents … it is a wonder he was not standing on your Jurassic coastline illustrating some of his points! The last one is terrific, the still deep blue with great dinosaur rocks looming up!
All are beautiful captures but the first one really took my breath away 🙂
I like the water fall: infinite flow …
What a fabulously information post with some brilliant photos! It is one of my favourite coastlines of all! Thanks Gilly!
Ah, thank you for this beautiful tour to the SW of England, Gilly! 🙂
Stunning photo.
Gilly this is a wonderful post, and its perfect for the theme of infinate. We have a fossil coast here in Lothian too, and I love the feeling of walking over fossils of plants and molluscs which were living fo far in the past…..we are truely tiny specks in the infinate span of earths life 🙂 This helps to keep everything in presrpective!
I thought I was going to get something about dinosaurs. 🙂 So glad to see these instead.
janet
A beautiful collection. I love the first shot the best.
This place is a find! So many stories buried here for everyone to discover! Thanks, Gilly!
What an amazing landscape Gilly…gives me goosebumps just reading about it!!
Great photos Gilly
Is the little shingle beach with the al fresco dining called Beer, by any chance?
Ah you know it then Tony? Well if you’re ever ther on a summer Sunday pop into the Mariners Hall and there’s a good chance we can say hello! 🙂
Beer it is then, see you in the summer!
Wonderful for infinite! What an adventure.
You take us to a part of the world we very much like … great photos here!
Thank youthat makes me happy!
Awesome first pic! Quite intriguing actually.
Oh look at your shadow! 😀
The first photo is breathtaking in its magnificence of size and colors.
A very unusual and perfect entry for the challenge – INFINITE. I’m always
learning new things with your posts. Very nice, Gilly ….!!!!
Gilly, those fossils are amazing! Thanks for sharing this.
Love your work-thanks for your support in my efforts .beebee
Amazing!
Marvellous pics, Gilly. Thanks for showing me so much of my own country, which I’ve yet to explore. 🙂
This is def on our “must see” list! Great post and pics. That fossil is pretty amazing!