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    Kimmeridge ( /ˈkɪmərɪdʒ/) is a small village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England. It is...
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    The Kimmeridge Clay is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay which is of Late Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous age and occurs in southern...
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    Kimmeridge Bay ( /ˈkɪmərɪdʒ/) is a bay on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, close to and southeast of the...
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    The Kimmeridge Oil Field is an oil drilling site, northwest of Kimmeridge Bay, on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, England.. The small...
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    Kimmeridge Ledges ( /ˈkɪmərɪdʒ/) is a set of Kimmeridge clay ledges stretching out in to the sea on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel...
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    50.60694; -2.13000 Clavell Tower, also known as Clavell Folly or the Kimmeridge Tower, is a Grade II listed Tuscan style tower built in 1830. It lies...
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    Rasen, Lincolnshire, from the Rasenia cymodoce ammonite zone of the lower Kimmeridge Clay Formation, dating to the early Kimmeridgian stage. Knutsen (2012)...
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  • (sauros) 'lizard') is a dubious genus of Sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of England. The type species, Gigantosaurus megalonyx,...
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    (born in 1949) is an English plumber, fossil collector and preparator in Kimmeridge, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. From an early age on, Etches began...
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  • Levantine Heritage Foundation. Philip Mansel is actively involved in the Kimmeridge Project, whose objective is to provide a secure and permanent home for...
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    St Nicholas's Church is a parish church in Kimmeridge, Dorset. It is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Dorset, in...
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    The Isle of Purbeck's oil shale, or "Kimmeridge Coal" which has been won from the cliffs to the east of Kimmeridge since the early 17th century, is no...
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    To the east there is a fossilised forest. Lulworth is also close to Kimmeridge, famous for its rocky shore and fossils. Geologists and geographers have...
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    Kimmerosaurus ("lizard from Kimmeridge") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the family Cryptoclididae. Kimmerosaurus is most closely related to Tatenectes...
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    from Wytch Farm, has the world's oldest continuously pumping well at Kimmeridge which has been producing oil since the early 1960s. Dorset's diverse geography...
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  • Etchesia is a genus of muensterellid stem-octopod from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of southern England. It is monotypic, consisting solely of type species...
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    throughout North York Moors National Park. Jet has also been found in Kimmeridge shale seams in Dorset. Jet was mined from a number of areas of France...
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    appearance of Cardioceras redcliffense as the lower boundary. The village of Kimmeridge on the coast of Dorset, England, is the origin of the name of the Kimmeridgian...
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    found in marine shales, such as the Staffin Shale Formation of Skye, the Kimmeridge Clay of England, or the Mancos Group of North America. It is commonly...
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  • home. In 2015, police searched Sally Ann John's last-known address in Kimmeridge Close in Swindon, and days later arrested three men, aged 52, 50 and 52...
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    length of 2.21–2.85 m (7.3–9.4 ft). A series of neck vertebrae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation indicate a pliosaur, probably Pliosaurus, that may have...
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    armatus, was named in 1875, based on a skeleton found in a clay pit in the Kimmeridge Clay in Swindon, England. In 1902 the genus was renamed Dacentrurus because...
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    Bay Broad Bench Charnel Kimmeridge Kimmeridge Oil Field Kimmeridge Bay Gaulter Gap Clavell Tower Hen Cliff Cuddle Kimmeridge Ledges The Etches Collection...
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    today. Large areas of land, including the coast between Lulworth Cove and Kimmeridge, are still only partially accessible; this includes the ghost village...
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    PV OR 31787, a humerus (upper arm bone), comes from the Kimmeridgian Kimmeridge Clay Formation of Shotover, Oxfordshire, England. Richard Owen, however...
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    (rounded to the nearest 100). Ely is built on a 23-square-mile (60 km2) Kimmeridge Clay island which, at 85 feet (26 m), is the highest land in the Fens...
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    high-quality oil. Nearby is the world's oldest continuously pumping well at Kimmeridge, which has been in use since the early 1960s. The source of this oil is...
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    but the 17th century pulpit was moved to Lulworth Camp and the plate to Kimmeridge. The church and school house have since been preserved as museums. The...
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    drawing of an aptychus which was mistakenly described as a bivalve and given the name "Trigonellites latus", from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England...
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    Süntel Formation, previously known as the Kimmeridge Formation (German: "Mittlerer Kimmeridge"; Middle Kimmeridge), is a geological formation in Germany...
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