Egmont Bight
| Egmont Bight | ||
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 Looking down on the pebble beach at Egmont Bight |
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| Waters | English Channel | |
| Land mass | Isle of Purbeck | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 35 '39 " N , 2 ° 4' 42" W | |
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| width | approx. 500 m | |
Egmont Bight is a small, shallow bay on the English Channel coast , on the Isle of Purbeck , in the county of Dorset , in England . The bay is bounded by Swyre Head to the west and Egmont Point to the east, and Chapman's Pool to the east .
Egmont Bight is about two kilometers west of Worth Matravers , about eight kilometers southwest of Swanage and about five kilometers south of Corfe Castle and Corfe Castle .
The coast along Devon and Dorset are among the natural wonders of the world. From Orcombe Point , near Exmouth , to Old Harry Rocks , east of Studland Bay , there is a 155-kilometer stretch of coastline, which was the first natural landscape in England to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List . The cliffs and pebble beach of Egmant Bight are part of the so-called Jurassic Coast .
The rock layers along the Jurassic Coast tilted slightly to the east. That is why the oldest part of the coast is found in the west, with progressively younger rocks forming the cliffs further east. The natural revelations along the Jurassic Coast reveal a continuous sequence of geological structures created in the Triassic , Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and present around 185 million years of geological history.
- see also: List of places along the Jurassic Coast
Individual evidence
- ^ Dorset and East Devon Coast . UNESCO World Heritage Center. 2001. Retrieved October 19, 2010.