GEOLOGISTS have revealed their favourite seaside holiday spots – and Dorset shows up twice in the list.
Professional and budding geologists across the UK are heading to the coast this summer hoping to do a bit of rock spotting alongside sunbathing and building sandcastles.
Using the geology app, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has identified their top ten most popular coastal destinations in Great Britain.
Dorset has two entries into the top ten - Lulworth Cove in the Purbecks and Lyme Regis.
Using the app, geologists will be able to identify exactly what rocks they are looking at and
get the full information on
their geology from the BGS databanks at the BGS.
The free app can access all of the BGS 1:50,000 geological maps on a smart phone or tablet. Using the GPS built-in to the device the app locates where users are and displays the geology underneath their feet.
Lulworth Cove was third of the top ten coastal destinations for geologists, as listed by the BGS.
A spokesman said the beauty spot is ‘arguably one of the most-visited geological localities in the country and a great training ground for geologists’.
This was closely followed by Lyme Regis at number four.
In the list, the town was described as ‘a well-known fossil collecting location and is part of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, more commonly known as the Jurassic Coast’.
Both were beaten to the top spot by the chalk cliffs at Brighton and Hove in Sussex.
Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty came in at number two. They were described as ‘the gateway to the North West Highlands Geopark, home to some of the oldest rocks in Europe’.
Also featuring on the list were the Isle of Skye in the Scottish Highlands, St Catherine’s Point in the Isle of Wight, Lizzard Point in Cornwall, Babbacombe in Devon, The Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire and Conwy in North Wales.
The Isle of Arran is famous amongst geologists as an important research site.
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