Egmont Bight
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
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.
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References
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Gallery
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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
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