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Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southern England. The cove is one of the world's finest examples of such a landform , and is a World Heritage Site and tourist location with approximately 500,000 [ 1 ] visitors every year, of whom about 30 per cent visit in July and August. [ 2 ]
The label of Lulworth Beds was given to the strata below the Cinder Bed in 1963 by Casey, who called the remaining section the Durlston Beds. These were elevated to the status of Lulworth and Durlston Formations by Thompson in 1975, who introduced the Purbeck Group as their parent unit. Cope and colleagues considered the Purbeck as a formation ...
The Fossil Forest is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. [1] It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on a wide ledge in the seaside cliff. The site is within the Lulworth Ranges and thus has restricted access.
The Lulworth Formation is a geologic formation in England.It dates from the late Tithonian to the mid Berriasian.It is a subunit of the Purbeck Group. [1] In Dorset, it consists of three members, which are in ascending order, the Mupe Member, the Ridgway Member, and the Warbarrow Tout Member.
Within the length of Dorset's coast can be found examples of a nearly circular cove (Lulworth Cove), a very clearly exposed and accessible geological fold , a natural sea arch (Durdle Door), sea stacks (Old Harry Rocks), an active landslip , and numerous and often quite spectacular cliffs, including the highest cliff on England's south coast ...
Vertical rock strata on the west side of St Oswald's Bay, at the western end of the Purbeck Monocline. The Purbeck Monocline is a geological fold in southern England. The term 'fold' is used in geology when one or more originally flat sedimentary strata surfaces are bent or curved as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
Old Harry and his (latest) wife. Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England.
Homocline near Lulworth Cove, England Diagram of a homocline Homocline in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In structural geology, a homocline or homoclinal structure (from old Greek: homo = same, cline = inclination), is a geological structure in which the layers of a sequence of rock strata, either sedimentary or igneous, dip uniformly in a single direction having the same general inclination in ...