The recent storms have scoured the beach at Barton, eating into the Barton Beds, rich with 40 million year old fossils. The beach, must be be several feet lower than usual, exposing septarian nodules washed out of the Barton clays, usually only visible during the spring tides. Septarian was formed by volcanic eruptions around 60 million years ago, when dead sea life concreted with sediment to form mud balls, which dried hard.
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