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Alum Bay north cliffs
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Title: Chalk rock slide at Alum Bay
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Alum Bay is a bay near the westernmost point of the Isle of Wight, England, within sight of the Needles.

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Alum Bay is the location of a classic sequence of Eocene beds of soft sands and clays, separated by an unconformity from the underlying Cretaceous Chalk Formation that forms the adjoining headland of West High Down. Due to geological folding of the Alpine orogeny, the strata in the main section of the bay are vertical, with younger rocks to the west. The sands are coloured due to oxidised iron compounds formed under different conditions.

Keywords: bay, sea, cliff, clay
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Image sizes: 3030*2022px, 2921kb
Origin: Originally a digital image, with postprocessing
Date/Time: 19970506-120700
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Position coordinates:WGS84 LONG -1.57108783722°, LAT 50.6646893944°
Destination coordinates;WGS84 LONG -1.57350182533°, LAT 50.6643561661°
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Author: Alexandra Medwedeff
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