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1. • • Beach material was thought to come from the Budleigh Salterton pebble deposits in the west, and later from Portland in the southeast.
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   Where did the Chesil Beach come from?

   • The general explanation for the origin of the Chesil Beach as given above was partly based on some form of direct transport eastward from Budleigh Salterton in the past and partly on Strahan's (1898) argument that the Chesil Beach represents the winnowings of lost land in West Bay.

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   What is Chesil Beach?

   • Chesil Beach (also known as Chesil Bank) in Dorset, England is one of three major shingle beach structures in Britain. Its name is derived from the word chessil (Old English ceosel or cisel), meaning "gravel" or "shingle".

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   Why is Chesil Beach important?

   • Strahan argued that because the pebbles cannot escape around the cliffs of Portland the Chesil Beach represents the accumulated gravels of the whole of the land-surface that once occupied West Bay (Lyme Bay). He commented more specifically on the Budleigh Salterton pebbles.

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   How did Chesil Beach evolve?

   • Evolution of the Chesil Beach - the main Flandrian (Holocene) Development The origin and evolution of the Chesil Beach and the Fleet Lagoon is still not fully understood. The present beach has formed since the last glacial phase (the Devensian) of the Quaternary Ice Age.

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   What is Chesil Beach made of?

   • The Fleet is widest, up to 0.8 km or more, on the Oxford Clay and Fullers Earth, narrowing to about 180 m where the shore is of Forest Marble or Cornbrash. The pebbles of the Chesil Beach are mainly flint and chert, derived from Cretaceous rocks, perhaps by way of Tertiary gravels such as those at Blackdown and Bincombe.

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   Where is Chesil Beach filmed?

   • On Chesil Beach : a novel (First Anchor books ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-307-38617-5. OCLC 176950165. ^ Stinton, Judith (10 September 2021). "Chesil Beach: a peopled solitude – Dorset History Centre blog". Retrieved 14 January 2022. ^ "Filming Location Matching "Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, UK" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb.

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   Chesil Beach (also known as Chesil Bank) in Dorset, England is one of three major shingle beach structures in Britain. [2] Its name is derived from the word chessil (Old English ceosel or cisel), meaning "gravel" or "shingle".

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   Dec 7, 2020 · Chesil Beach initially formed from predominantly sandy deposits in Lyme Bay as water levels rose rapidly at the end of the last ice age 20,000-14,000 years ago. These deposits were eroded and the sand and gravel driven onshore as a barrier beach.

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   Article History. Also called: Chesil Bank. Chesil Beach, beach, county of Dorset, England, that stretches 18 miles (29 km) from Bridport to the Isle of Portland. One of the best-known natural features in Britain, it consists of shingle (pebbles), 98.5 percent of which is hard flint or chert rock.

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   May 16, 2022 · Chesil Beach (also known as Chesil Bank) is one of three major shingle beach formations in the United Kingdom. It is located in Dorset, England. It comes from Old English, which means “gravel” or “shingle.”

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   Chesil Beach is a simple, linear, pebble and cobble storm beach, which, because it links the so-called 'Isle of Portland' with land farther west at Abbotsbury, is frequently quoted as an example of a tombolo (e.g. Holmes, 1944; Monkhouse, 1965; Twidale, 1968).

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   The general explanation for the origin of the Chesil Beach as given above was partly based on some form of direct transport eastward from Budleigh Salterton in the past and partly on Strahan's (1898) argument that the Chesil Beach represents the winnowings of lost land in West Bay. Strahan argued that because the pebbles cannot escape around ...

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   Jun 22, 2024 · TAKING its name from the Saxon word Chesil, meaning shingle or pebble, Chesil Beach stretches 18 miles from Portland to West Bay. This geographical wonder, part of Dorset's Heritage Coast, is...