One of my favourite walks is along the North Yorkshire coast, starting at the kipper smokehouse above the old fishing village of Staithes and heading south towards the fossil beach at Port Mulgrave. Mary Anning, the famous palaeontologist and fossil collector, made significant geological finds along the Jurassic Coast around Lyme Regis in Dorset. The same strata of rocks stretch diagonally up through England, and are exposed once again along the cliffs on the Yorkshire coast.
Clearly visible at the start of the walk are the industrial buildings of Boulby potash mine (Figure 1), which, at 1.4 km, is the deepest mine in the UK and home of Boulby Underground Laboratory, 1100 m below the surface (Figure 2):
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