why is weymouth called the jurassic coast?
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The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site is more popularly known as the 'Jurassic Coast'. The name comes from the best known of the geological periods found within it, but in fact the site includes rocks from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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Polzeath (/pəlˈzɛθ/;Cornish: Polsegh, meaning dry creek) is a small seaside resort in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north west of Wadebridge on the Atlantic coast. Polzeath has a sandy beach and is popular with holiday-makers and surfers.
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Truro (/ˈtrʊəroʊ/; Cornish: Truru) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. It is Cornwall's county town and only city, as well as being its centre for administration, leisure and retail.
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Gulf Shores is about a 6 hour drive from Memphis. That is the closest beach to here. It's sort of referred to as "Memphis South" due to so many Memphians that travel there on vacation. 7.
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Holcomb History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms. The name Holcomb first arose amongst the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. It is derived from their having lived in Holcombe, in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, and Somerset. ... The place-name taken as a whole means "deep hollow valley."
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Weymouth is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, one of 13 Massachusetts municipalities with city forms of government while retaining "town of" in their official names, it is named after Weymouth, Dorset, a coastal town in England, and is the second-oldest settlement in Massachusetts only to Plymouth, Massachusetts ...
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Newquay (/ˈnjuːki/ NEW-kee; Cornish: Tewynblustri) is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, in the south west of England.
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Zealandia (/ziːˈlændiə/), also known as the New Zealand continent or Tasmantis, is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust that subsided after breaking away from Gondwanaland 83–79 million years ago. ... The name and concept for Zealandia was proposed by Bruce Luyendyk in 1995.
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Jersey, British crown dependency and island, the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands, lying south of England's coast and 12 miles (19 km) west of the Cotentin peninsula of France. Its capital, St. Helier, is 100 miles (160 km) south of Weymouth, England.
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The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic coast of Namibia and south of Angola from the Kunene River south to the Swakop River, although the name is sometimes used to describe the entire Namib Desert coast.
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Well-sheltered, with a splendid outlook over Torbay, Brixham is friendly with a strong community spirit altogether a great place to live. The beaches at Shoalstone and the Breakwater, plus the coves at Fishcombe Churston and Elberry, are all part of the town, as are the villages of Churston and Galmpton.
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Isla Nublar (English: Nublar Island; Site A) is a fictional Central American island in the Jurassic Park franchise, first depicted in Michael Crichton's eponymous 1990 novel. It is the primary setting of the 1993 film Jurassic Park, Jurassic World (2015) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018).
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The continental shelf, slope, and rise are collectively called the continental margin.
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The name of Honfleur is also interpreted as "the upstream port", as opposed to Harfleur, "the downstream port". Both places are indeed of Viking origin and were important commerce ports before the silting of Harfleur and the foundation of Le Havre in the16th century.
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Truro (/ˈtrʊəroʊ/; Cornish: Truru) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. It is Cornwall's county town and only city, as well as being its centre for administration, leisure and retail. Its population was recorded as 18,766 in the 2011 census. People from Truro are known as Truronians.
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Fine sediment in the inner part of Weymouth Harbour is considered to be derived from erosion of the Wey catchment.
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We took a small detour with the RV to the Gulf of Mexico at the border of Alabama. We liked it so much we decided to go again when we got to DeFuniak Springs. It was amazing, white sandy beaches, swimming... And no alligators.