The best fossil hunting beach, between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, was inacessible due to civil engineering works, but there was plenty to see (though collecting was not easy) at Monmouth Beach, just west of Lyme Regis. |
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The oldest rocks in the Lyme area are these Triassic mudstones (West Mercia Mudstones) west of Seaton. Cretaceous chalk in the Beer Cliffs in the background are downfaulted against them. |
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Alternating limestones and shales of the Blue Lias, Jurassic, at Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis. |
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Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis. |
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Ammonite "fossil graveyard" at Monmouth Beach. |
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Ammonite, with crinoid columnals. |
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Gryphaea, Jurassic oysters. |
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