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Introduction to Culver Cliff

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Culver Cliff
Isle of Wight Geological Guide and Geology Info

The huge cliffs of Culver Cliff can yield some superb sponges and large echinoids with occasional fish remains. However collecting from this location can be dangerious and difficult. Extreme Care must be taken at all times.


Culver - Isle of Wight
Last updated: [22/06/06]  last visited 2005
Cretaceous
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Hastings
(Culver Cliff - 2005)

Location Information

Culver Cliff has been classified as 'Low', chance of finding fossils. The foreshore is often covered with sea weed and there is little in the way of boulders of scree slopes to check for fossils.

(Not Suitable)

Culver is a dangerious location, not recommended for children or family trips.

     

Access to Culver Cliff is via is Whitecliff Bay. It is easy access, but once at Culver Cliff, the foreshore is very slippery. At Whitecliff bay, parking, toliets and a cafe is available.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils are found on the Foreshore, you just simply pick them up, but they can also be found in the cliff.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted.

This can be a very DANGERIOUS LOCATION. Firstly, the huge cliffs here are constantly falling due to the bedding plains which are vertical in places. The foreshore is very slippery and rocky and the sea doesn't go out very far.

The sea also always hits the cliff at high tide and it is very easy to become cut off from the corner of Culver Cliff just before Whitecliff Bay.

EXTREME CARE must be taken at all times.


Other Similar Locations to Culver Cliff


Culver Cliff, is accessed by Whitecliff Bay with is Nearby to Bembridge Quarry.

For locations with chalk, you could try the Seven Sisters, Peacehaven, Beachy Head or Eastbourne both in Sussex. In Bedfordshire, you can also visit Houghton Quarry.

In Kent, St Margaret's Bay, Pegwell Bay, Dover, and Samphire Hoe may be of interest, or in Dorset, Whitenothe


Stone Tumblers (Lapidary)


Stone Tumblers are used for tumbling and polishing rough rock, stones and pebbles including those found on the beach and glass.

Whilst collecting fossils, on those days where you come back empty handed, you could collect rocks, stones and glass from the beach and tumble then at home.

These are all high quality machines to give a professional finish to your samples. The tumblers can be used with a variety of grits, most commonly Silicon Carbide Grit and Cerium Oxide. We have a wide range of rough rocks for sale too.

Microfossils are much easier to collect because they are so small that the vast majority of collections only concentrate on large finds. These small finds can simply be found by taking small samples of sands, crags, clays and soft rocks and examining them under a microscope.

We have a wide range of microscopes for sale, both for the study of fossils, but also educational and professional for use in the laboratory. We have Stereo microscopes, Compound Microscopes, Polarising Microscopes and Monocular Microscopes.


We have thousands of Test Sieves for Particle Analysis.

Endecotts Sieves: For accurate dependable results you can't buy a better test sieve than Endecotts. At every stage of manufacture each test sieve is individually inspected.

High Precision Tecan manufactures precision apertures as small as 3 microns for a wide array of applications such as filtering, sieving and nozzles. Its high-performance, ASTM/ISO compliant test sieves satisfy the most demanding fine particle grading requirements.




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