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Durdle Door, Dorset
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bothhemispheres A #Dorset#timelapse: here’s the #MilkyWay rising over #DurdleDoor on the #JurassicCoast in Dorset, UK. Did you see the #shootingstar in the thumbnail? Look carefully, there’s about 20 in this sequence, how cool is that! This was my second ever visit to Durdle Door, and I went on this particular night because the moon set before the galaxy rose (you can see the shadow of the moon crawl up the rocks near the beginning of the movie). I positioned my cameras in this spot so I could catch the core of the galaxy rise inside the rock arch, but the warm day meant there was too much overnight haze on the horizon to see it through there, unfortunately (but at least I didn’t freeze this time, like I did with @mattiabicchi, LOL :-) It was a popular night for photographers, at one point there were 7 of us shooting both timelapse and astro stills all along the beach (you can see them arrive one by one down the cliff stairs, just look for the headtorches flashing around). At the very end of the sequence, you can see mist flowing in from camera left, this is the same mist I featured in my last post (only then, it had moved further down the coast). The toughest part of the night was dealing with the vaporised salt that kept coating my lenses (the wind was blowing right off the water towards me and my cameras). To deal with this, every half hour or so, I’d use an alcohol wipe to clear the lenses. Happily, it worked (I forgot to clean my glasses the same way, the world became very hazy for me, until at around 4am, I realised what was happening, ha ha).
A tour of the amazing fossil rich sites of England’d Jurassic Coast
Drone views of the Durdle Door arch.
Video tour around Great Britain, from Scotland to the Channel coast (not sure if I saw anything obviously Ireland in there but maybe there is and I missed it)
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Durdle Door, England, is one of the highlights of the Jurassic Coast. Numerous prehistoric fossils have been found in the area at low tide.
South West Coast Path Landslip You may remember recently we brought you the story of Durdle Door in Dorset, (http://on.fb.me/13b8EO0). On the night of the 29th of April 2013, This section of the South West Coast path to the East of Durdle Door at St Oswwalds bay collapsed, taking out 20m of the cliff. The Lullworth Estate (who own the land where the slip occurred) have said that they will work with the relevant authorities to re-route the coast path around the substantial landslip. The slip is believed to have occurred due to 12 months of wet weather followed by dry conditions. -LL Links; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-22355538 http://jurassiccoast.org/ http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/ Image; MCA
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A short trip along the Jurassic Coast of England, featuring Durdle Door and other eroded sedimentary features.
Durdle Door, Dorset, England.
"They persuaded me to keep on, and at last stranded me on the pebbles, exactly opposite the magnificent arch of Durdle-rock Door. Here I stood and contemplated with astonishment and pleasure this stupendous piece of Nature's work" John O'Keefe, 1792."
Located on the World famous Jurassic heritage coast, Durdle Door is a stunning, naturally formed limestone arch. The arch is on privately owned land, located near Lulworth, but it is open to the public, The name "durdle" comes from the old English "Thirl" which means bore or drill.
The geology making up the arch is composed of almost vertical bands of narrow limestone rock, which runs parallel to the chalk of the coast line. The arch formed as a result of the softer rock behind the limestone being eroded away (through joints in the limestone itself), and eventually the sea managed to punch through the limestone, leaving the archway. Eventually the arch will collapse, leaving sea stacks behind similar to those that can be seen all along the South West Coast.
The Bull, a rock sticking out from the sea, close to Durdle Door is a continuation of the rock strata found in the arch.
-LL
Links; http://www.worldheritagecoast.net/place.aspx?place=25 http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/durdle.htm
Image; Saffron Blaze
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Golden Sunrise through the door
The arch in the foreground of this spectacular sunrise shot is known as Durdle Door. It’s an arch of Jurassic-aged Portland Formation limestone on the southern coast of England. The site is visited by several hundred thousand tourists per year, making it one of the most visited sites on this coastline. Despite that, this photographer managed to capture an amazing, tranquil view of this exploding, orange sunrise.
-JBB
Image credit: Lies through a lens https://flic.kr/p/xZvgmn
Read more: http://www.worldheritagecoast.net/place.aspx?place=25 http://jurassiccoast.org/rocks-and-fossils/the-science-of-a-beautiful-landscape/1010-durdle-door-the-rock-arch
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