Question: Do you like to visit the Jurassic Coast, in Dorset?

Laura Soul answered on 11 Mar 2013:

I love visiting the jurassic coast in Dorset, I’ve actually been there quite a lot, and I take students from the university that I work at there to explain things about geology and fossils to them. If you look at my work photos the one of the really big yellow cliff is from the jurassic coast. The great thing about it is that some of the fossils you can find there are amazing, like ichthyosaurs (these were reptiles that looked a bit like dolphins and went extinct just before the dinosaurs). But the rocks there are really interesting too, you can see rocks that show that millions of years ago there used to be a river there, or that the sea level was falling and changing the shape of the coast.

My favourite place on the Jurassic coast is Monmouth beach where the ‘ammonite graveyard’ is. You can see hundreds of ammonite shells imbedded in the rock, some of them are really huge. You can just walk around over them and look at them all. Plus there’s a really nice pub nearby that does yummy chocolate pudding.