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🪸 Dorset and East Devon Coast: New Swanage to Studland Bay

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🪸 Dorset and East Devon Coast: New Swanage to Studland Bay
185 million years of Earth's geological history exposed in coastal cliffs and rocks


🕐 3 min read · Updated 10 Apr 2026 at 17:40

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📌 Fast Facts
  • Location: Dorset and East Devon, southern England
  • Time span: Triassic through Cretaceous periods, 185 million years
  • Key features: Fossil-rich cliffs, sea stacks, wave-cut platforms
  • UNESCO inscription: 2001

The Dorset and East Devon Coast is a geological sequence in southern England that spans an uninterrupted 185-million-year ...

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