Raised Beach on Hope's Nose
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Raised Beach on Hope's Nose

by Malcolm Hart

Raised beach on Hope's Nose (English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark). The shell-rich raised beach (MIS 5e) rests on the mid-Devonian limestones first described by Sedgwick and Murchison (1839, 1840) in their definition of the Devonian System.