Landslip Under Southdown between Beer Head and Branscombe

Landslip Under Southdown between Beer Head and Branscombe, which took place 1789-90 looking Westward to Sidmouth, Torbay and the Start Point, lithographed by George Scharf after drawing by William Dawson. The Axmouth-Lyme Regis stretch of the south coast of England comprises one of the best known areas of landslipping in Great Britain. It includes the site of the first large-scale landslide ever to have been the subject of detailed scientific description by geologists: the Great Bindon Landslide which happened on Christmas Day, 1839. Fortuitously William Buckland (1784-1856) and his scientific artist wife Mary nee Morland (1797-1857) were quickly on the spot as they had been visiting fellow geologist Wiliam Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857) in nearby Axminster. The three, along with Mary Anning (1799-1847), investigated the incident. Coloured lithograph

Picture No

14154662

Media ID

45863983

Size

5412px x 3558px (2.2MB)

Credit

Source

Geological Society of London. W D Conybeare's and William Buckland's work Ten plates comprising a plan, sections, and views, representing the changes produced on the coast of East Devon, between Axmouth and Lyme Regis by the subsidence of the land and elevation of the bottom of the sea, on the 26th December, 1839, and 3rd of February, 1840', London: John Murray (1840), plate 10. - Image reference: 27-30

Date

1840