Jurassic Coast
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How it came to be
Along the cliffs of south-west England, from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks appear in sequence and record about 185 million years of Earth's history. These eroding cliffs have been used for earth-science research for over 300 years.
When Mary Anning of Lyme Regis was about 12, her brother Joseph found a four-foot skull, and a few months later she found the rest of the skeleton, the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be correctly identified. In 1823 she found a nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton, and in December 1828 a partial pterosaur skeleton, the first found outside Germany.
The coast includes Durdle Door, a natural arch. Its eight sections were inscribed in 2001, the first wholly natural World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom.
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