Sujet

Kimmeridge Ledges and coastline seen from St Alban's Head, Dorset, c1955. Creator: Arthur Charles Kirby Ware.

Légende

Kimmeridge Ledges and coastline seen from St Alban's Head, Dorset, c1955. Kimmeridge clay ledges stretching out in to the sea on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast. The Kimmeridge Clay is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay of Late Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous age. The fossil fauna of the Kimmeridge Clay includes turtles, thalattosuchians, sauropods, plesiosaurs, pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs, as well as a number of invertebrate species.

Date

1955

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Ware in the World

Notre référence

HRM26A35_449

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

78.7Mo (3.6Mo) / 50.5cm x 39.0cm / 5967 x 4608 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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