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| Evaporites and associated sediments of the basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dorset IAN M. WEST...Evaporites and associated sediments of the basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dorset. Proc. Geol...Four facies of limestones, each with particular contents of calcitised evaporites and of skeletal debris...sediments of modern evaporite-depositing environments. The lowermost limestones, stromatolitic and pelletoid...pelletoid limestones with algal-mats and some gypsum are products of high-intertidal flats. The main evaporite |
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| Meeting in the Weymouth Area, 1966 Report by the Directors: I. M. WEST, D. J. SHEARMAN AND M. E. PUGH 27...30 May 1966 Received 29 October 1968 INTRODUCTION of this Field Meeting was to study the two main brecciated...between the Isle of Portland and Swanage. The lower brecciated horizon is seen only near the Bill of Portland...deposits, and was mentioned by Arkell (1938). The beds affected are the basal Caps of the Purbeck and locally...locally the Portland Roach. The upper brecciated horizon occurs between the Great Dirt Bed and the 'Cypris' |
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| the Purbeck Limestone Group in the Dorset type-area R. K. Westhead* and A. E. Mathert WESTHEAD, R. K. &...the Purbeck Limestone Group in the Dorset type-area. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 107,...overview of the lithostratigraphical variation of the Purbeck Limestone Group across its Dorset type-area...Wessex sub-basin of northern Europe) is gained from new logging of coastal sections in west and central parts...parts of south Dorset, and re-evaluation of previous detailed work further east. An adapted lithostratigraphical |
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| 301 THE PORTLAND BEDS OF THE DORSET MAINLAND. By W. ]. ARKELL, M.A., D.Se., F.G.S. [Received 3,d September... PAGE 1. INTRODCCTORY AND HISTORICAL II. THE EAST PURBECK SECTIONS; TOUT •. III. IV. V. VI. 3°1...Houxs•• CORRELATlOJo; OF TilE WEST l'CRBECK LUI-WORTH; THE FREESTONE SERIES OF EAST BACOJo; HOLE TO...TO DUNGY HEAD OCTCROP ~ORTII OF WEYMOUTH: RIJo;GSTEAD AND .• 316 •• VIII. IX. NOTES ON THE A:...A:.I:.IONITE SUCCt;SSION AND THE CORRELATIO:< TABLE SUMMARY HEFEREl'iCES 319 TO PORTlSHA~1 VII. 304 |
 | Barton, C. M., Woods, M. A., Bristow, C. R., Newell, A. J., Westhead, R. K., Evans, D. J., Kirby, G. A., Warrington, G. (2011) Geology of south Dorset and south-east Devon and its World Heritage Coast - Special Memoir for 1 :50 000 geological sheets 328 Dorchester, 341/342 West Fleet and Weymouth and 342/343 Swanage, and parts of sheets 326/340 Sidmouth, 327 Bridport, 329 Bournemouth and 339 Newton Abbot. British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham. | Book |
| Geolo_ of south Dorset and south-east Devon and its World Heritage Coast - i,J ~ . A Geology of south...south Dorset and south-east Devon and its World Heritage Coast In recognition of its outstanding geology...Orcombe Rocks in south-east Devon and Old Harry Rocks in south Dorset was granted World Heritage status...status in December 2001. The geology of this coast is described, together ,vith the recently mapped 1 :50...sheets 328 Dorchester, 341/342 West Fleet and Weymouth and 342/343 Swanage. The diverse geology ranges |
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| welcomed alike by students of geology and fossils and by amateurs. Few parts of England offer a better training-ground...training-ground in Geology than the coast of Dorset. All the principal structures of sedimentary rocks are to be seen...there in diagrammatic clearness, and fossils are plentiful. The Dorset coast is described almost foot...Lyme Regis or Bridport in the west, Weymouth in the central part, and Swanage in the east. €1-00 net ...Reserved Photo LULWORTH \erial view from HOLE AND by J. X.. St. Joseph. COVE. the South-east. Photo |
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| Jurassic), Isle of Portland, Dorset CHRISTOPHER 7: PERR Y * Department of Earth Sciences, University of Derby...GB, UK Recent interpretations of the tufaceous limestones from within the ‘Caps Beds’ on the Isle of...of Portland have suggested a depositional environment of intertidal flats and lagoons with typically higher...salinity levels, a stark contrast with earlier ideas of a freshwater origin. However, evidence is presented...observed are typical of those seen in freshwater tufas forming at the present day, and contrast with those |
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| INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGtC.~LSCIENCES Natural Environment Research Council British Regional Geology The...The Hampshire Basin and adjoining areas FOURTH EDITION FOR REFEREl\lt:E ONL • V ,'i' .;;..:a-•~)- Oc(_O_s... Oc(_O_s t< ~r { HAVANT COLLEGE - INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Natural Environment Research Cou~...The Hampshire Basin and adjoining areas FOURTH EDITION By R. V. Melville, MSc and E. C. Freshney, BSc...Institute of Geological Sciences was formed by the inco,poration of the Geological Survey of Great Britain |
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| 73 THE PETROGRAPHY OF THE PORTLAND SAND OF DORSET. By}l. P. LAITER, B.A ., F .G.S . [R ead May lSI, '...] 1. INTRODUCTION AND BASIS OF WORK. IN dealing with a deposit like the Portland Sand, the field work...examina tion of the sediments . Mere lithological evidence afford s only a rough indication of conditions...conditions of deposition, and an exhaustive method of sampling is necessary in order to understand fully the nature...nature and source of origin of the deposits. Apart from Prof. J. F. Blake's work on the Portlandian and |
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| _DISCOVER DORSET FOSSILS RICHARD EDMONDS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with funding from...at the age of eight on Charmouth Beach and led him to study geology at the University of Hull from 1980...North Sea Oil Industry before moving to the field of countryside interpretation, initially as a volunteer...National Trust for Scotland on the Isle of Arran and, in 1986, as warden of the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre...led countless numbers of people onto the local beaches of West Dorset in search of fossils. In 1997 Richard |
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| COAST he Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset has joined the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef as...win this highest of international accolades, granted by the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations...Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), meeting in Dece1nber 2001 in Helsinki. T Nomination of the...strata but the visual geology extends on either side of ~ is period, across the Mesozoic era from the - ·...continues to erode. Nowhere else can boast the qualities of this scenic coast, which are listed here in gazetteer |
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| Geological Highlights of the West Country 1 Geological Highlights of the West Country A Nature Conservancy...A. W. G. Kingsbury LONDON BUTTERWORTHS ■ ENGLAND Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd London: S8 Kingsway...Conservancy, 1970 ISBN 0 40S 70002 5 Printed in England at the Pitman Press, Bath ) I 281495 Contents... 7 11 Descriptions: Cornwall 17 Devon 39 Dorset 89 Gloucestershire 197 Somerset 217 A Provisional...British Pleistocenc and Recent Succession 264 Glossary 265 References 273 Index of Sites by Counties |
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| University of Calgary on July 26, 2012 Geological Society, London, Special Publications A review of Jurassic...Jurassic chronostratigraphy and age indicators for the UK B. M. Cox Geological Society, London, Special Publications...click here to seek permission to re-use all or part of this article Subscribe click here to subscribe...Geological Society of London 2012 Downloaded from http://sp.lyellcollection.org/ at University of Calgary on...July 26, 2012 A review of Jurassic chronostratigraphy and age indicators for the UK B. M. C O X Biostratigraphy |
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| G Model PGEOLA 698 No. of Pages 45 Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association xxx (2018) xxx–xxx Contents...Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association journal homepage: www...Cretaceous stratigraphy, sediments and structure: Gems of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage...Heritage Site (Jurassic Coast), England Rory N. Mortimore1 ChalkRock Limited, 32 Prince Edwards Road, Lewes Sussex...Available online xxx Keywords: Cretaceous Devon and Dorset Sea-level Overstep Marker beds Inversion tectonics |
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| University of Manchester Library on May 19, 2015 Unconformities within the Portlandian Stage of the Wessex...Wessex Basin and their sequence-stratigraphical significance A N G E L A L. C O E Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK Present address: Department of Earth Sciences...6AA, UK Abstract: At outcrop, the Portlandian Stage of the western Wessex Basin, southern England comprises...comprises a complex series of marine and non-marine carbonates deposited in moderate to shallow water depth |
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| Fabric Variations in Jurassic Limestones of Southern England by R. C. L. WILSON Received 5 May 1966; read...INTRODUCTION SHELL FABRICS VEIN FABRICS CALCITE FABRlC ASSOCIATIONS SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES...ABSTRACT: Detailed fabric stud ies of Jurassic limestones collected from the Dorset coast have revealed inadeq...carbonate fabric classifications. The aragonite-calcite problem, and difficulties experienced in determining...special class ification for fossil shell fabrics and fracture fill fabrics . The classification is based |
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| INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES The stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay of the Dorset type area and its correlation... INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Natural Environment Research Council Report 80/4 The stratigraphy of the...the Kimmeridge Clay of the Dorset type area and its correlation with some other Kimmeridgian sequences ... B. M. Cox and R. W. Gallois © Crown copyright 1981 ISBN O 11 884182 3 London Her Majesty's Stationery...Kimmeridge Clay in Dorset I Introduction 1 Details of the sections 4 Wyke Regis 4 Black Head and Osmington Mills |
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| . Portland stone carvings in Bowers Quairy, Isle of Portland ��-� 1!1,.r� � � www.wsgs.org .uk ISSN...Chidlaw's Geological Mapping Course in the Forest of Dean ..................4 Paper, Scissors, Stone ................. 5 Geology Along the Coast Near Weymouth .............................................................9 On the Recent Expansion of the Quaternary and Pleistocene .................................................................16 Shale Gas and Geology ........................................ |
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| MEM01·as OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ------- ·----- ENGLAND AND WALES. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF PURBECK...PURBECK AND 1VEYMOUT H. • BY AUBREY ical Survey Q,ffi � Northern England. STRAHAN, M . .Lt\.., F.G.S...S. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER :MA..JESTY1 S TREA.9URY. . .... LONDON: FETTER...:\NE, E.C. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE AND SPOTTIS\VOODE...present Memoir . early attracted tl1e notice of geologists, and its a<.lmirable coast-sections l1ave been |
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| 125 THE OSTRACOD GENUS CYPRIDEA AND THE ZONES OF THE UPPER AND MIDDLE PURBECKIAN By P. C. SYLVESTER-BRADLEY...ON CERTAIN RELATED GENERA AND SUB-GENERA •• • THE ZoNES OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER PuRBECKIAN SYSTEMATIC...SECTION OF THE PURBECK BEDS AT POXWELL 125 126 127 130 149 149 151 SUMMARY The nomenclature of the genus...Cypridea is clarified, and a valid genolectotype is selected. The shell characters of the genus are described...Stratigraphically significant species of the Upper and Middle Purbeck Beds are described, and their distribution incorporated |
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| Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 123 (2012) 319–373 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect...ScienceDirect Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pgeola...(non-marine Lower Cretaceous) of the Wessex Sub-basin, southern England Jonathan D. Radley a,*, Percival...Allen b,1 a b School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston...Birmingham B15 2TT, UK Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, The University of Reading, PO Box |
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| lyellcollection.org/ at University of Saskatchewan on July 20, 2015 The lithostratigraphy of the latest Triassic to...to earliest Cretaceous of the English Channel and its adjacent areas NIGEL R. A I N S W O R T H , 1...Tany Court, St. Albans, Hertfordshire A L l 1 TU, UK (e-mail: Nigel R Ainsworth@compuserve.com) 211 Corner...Hertfordshire HP3 9HN, UK 332 Inkerman Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire A L l 3BB, UK 4StratLab Ltd, 299 Deeside...AB15 9PA, UK 5 41 Montem Road, Newmalden, Surrey KT3 3QU, UK Abstract: The stratigraphy of the latest |
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| 59 ON THE ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE. By GEO. F. OOLITIC HARRIS, F.G.S. [Rlad 4th January, 1895.] ... is not the object of this paper to discuss the origin of I T oolite, or of oolitic granules; neither...attempt be made to describe in detail the structure of the material which in so many cases holds the granules...examination of the granules themselves than has hitherto been attempted is very desirable, and it is his...part of authors to confine their descriptions to oolites collected over a very limited area, and with |
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| MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TUE UNITED Kl NG DOM. THE JURASSIC ROCKS �N _, I\. OF BRITAIN...BRITAIN. VOL. V. THE MIDDLE AND UPPER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGL.AJ.�D (YORJCSHIRE EXCEPTED). HORACE B. BY ...l'UllLISlll!ll BY ORDER OP THE LORDS COllMISSIONERS OF lll!R l!A.11!8TY'S TREA.l!UBY, ' .,,.,,..,,..�...T.IISTY. And to be purcha.<;ed, either directly or through any :Booksell�.r. lrom EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE...MENZIES & Oo., 12, H.and 90, WES'!' Nn:,ll Sr1t&BT, GLA.SGOW'; or ROJ>OES |
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| INSTITUTE OF GEO L OGICAL S C IENCES MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES...Geology of the Country around Bridport and Yeovil (Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheets 327 and 312...B. A.. WELCH, B.Sc., PH.D., J. A. ROBBIE, B.Sc., AND G. W. GREEN, M.A. with contributions on THE PURBECK... D.Sc.; PALAEONTOLOGY by R. V. Melvi]le, M.Sc.; and GROUND WATER by S. Buchan, B.Sc., Ph.D. LONDON HER...Institute of Geological Sciences was formed by th.e incorporation of the Geological_Survey of Great Britain |
