Sandstone stacks at Ladram Bay, near Exmouth

Sedimental #4 – Deep Time

Time for another dip into the soup of geological concepts that underpin the Jurassic Coast. This offering comes from Sam Scriven, Earth Science Adviser for the Jurassic Coast. Deep Time Deep time – not the time we watch tick by when bored. Not time measured with birthdays, seasons and celebrations. No. Deep time stretches backwards…

Walkers at Golden Cap

A walk in the holloways of West Dorset

I took a walk on my Birthday. My wife, Lydia, came with me, both of us freed from sleeping children by a kindly babysitter. It was evening, late August. Dusk was spreading its purple-yellow tinge across the clear sky and the day’s warmth was slowly fading from the air. The route I had picked out…