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Ramsholt Cliff is a 2.1-hectare (5.2 acres) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) north-west of Ramsholt in Suffolk, on the estuary of the River Deben. It is also a Geological Conservation Review site (GCR),[1] in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).[2]
The site is of historical importance as having provided the evidence for the 19th-century geologist Edward Charlesworth’s identification of the Coralline Crag as a new stratigraphical division of the Suffolk Crag deposits. It is also rich in well-preserved fossils of several uncommon species, including the Large Barnacle Balanus concavus and Coral Cryptangia woodii, along with many species of aragonitic molluscs.[1][a]Aragonite is a naturally occurring form of calcium carbonate that formed the shells of early molluscs.[3]
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