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Gypsum from
Ringstead Bay, Osmington, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK


Locality type:Bay
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ringstead Bay, Osmington, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1009249
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1009249:9
GUID (UUID V4):cd7fafda-72b6-4b43-ae90-9deae94f8cf3
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
5.0km (3.1 miles) St Oswalds Bay, West Lulworth, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
8.1km (5.0 miles) Mupe Bay, West Lulworth, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
10.2km (6.3 miles) Worbarrow Bay, Steeple with Tyneham, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
10.7km (6.6 miles) Worbarrow Tout, Worbarrow Bay, Steeple with Tyneham, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
11.9km (7.4 miles) Chickerell brick pit, Chickerell, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
12.8km (8.0 miles) Brandy Bay, Steeple with Tyneham, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
13.0km (8.1 miles) Mutton Cove, Isle of Portland, Weymouth and Portland, Dorset, England, UK
14.6km (9.1 miles) Kimmeridge Bay, Kimmeridge, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
15.3km (9.5 miles) Clavell's Hard, Kimmeridge, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
19.2km (11.9 miles) Houns Tout, Corfe Castle, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary beds in southern England J. K. Wright WRIGHT, J. K. 2003. New exposures...Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary beds in southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 114...Upper Oxfordian successions in England, particularly those on the Dorset coast, and revised, detailed descriptions...Oxfordian/lowermost Kimmeridgian successions in Dorset are given. Department of Geology, Roya/ Holloway...Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX. UK 1. INTRODUCTION There are four main areas in England where the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian
Report (issue)
The stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay of the Dorset type area and its correlation with some other Kimmeridgian...The stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay of the Dorset type area and its correlation with some other Kimmeridgian...Clay in Dorset I Introduction 1 Details of the sections 4 Wyke Regis 4 Black Head and Osmington Mills 4...4 Ringstead Bay 9 Kimmeridge area I 0 Lithologies 10 Fauna, ammonite distribution and zonation 13 Ammonite...exposed at Wyke Regis, Black Head, Osmington Mills and Ringstead Bay 9 Sketch map of the solid geology
Book (edition)
Few parts of England offer a better training-ground in Geology than the coast of Dorset. All the principal...are plentiful. The Dorset coast is described almost foot by foot, from Pinhay Bay, beyond the Devon...conveniently from Lyme Regis or Bridport in the west, Weymouth in the central part, and Swanage in the...Hounstout and St. Alban’s in the distance. Head THE DORSET COAST A Geological Guide BY Ge OVE SAV TES...EDITION The experience of many years has provéd the Dorset coast to be an ideal training ground for field
Book
ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL Geolo_ of south Dorset and south-east Devon and its World Heritage Coast...Coast - i,J ~ . A Geology of south Dorset and south-east Devon and its World Heritage Coast In recognition...in south-east Devon and Old Harry Rocks in south Dorset was granted World Heritage status in December 2001...:50 000 geological sheets 328 Dorchester, 341/342 West Fleet and Weymouth and 342/343 Swanage. The diverse...and occur in a variety of forms unrivalled in the UK. Inland too, the influence of geology on the landscape
Report (chapter)
University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK Present address: Department of Earth Sciences, Open...6AA, UK Abstract: At outcrop, the Portlandian Stage of the western Wessex Basin, southern England comprises...sea-level fall; these are denoted P1 to P4. The south Dorset exposures are each in slightly different tectonic...two significant stratal gaps. The sections at Ringstead Bay and Dungy Head are thin, condensed and in part...Portlandian outcrop from near the basin centre in Dorset, to the basin margin in Buckinghamshire (Figs 1-4)
Report (edition)
country into eighteen regions. To each region a bay in the Museum was allotted for the display of specimens...Jurassic (Inferior Oolite, Great Oolite Series Dorset Basin, Great Oolite Series northwards from Westbury);...trending approximately east-west; Structures trending approximately north-west-southeast; Influence of structure...Facing I 2 Section along the cliffs from Pinhay Bay past Lyme Regis and 11 Charmouth to near Seatown...in the Great Oolite Series between Bath and Lyme Bay 24 8 Section along the cliffs from south of Weymouth
Book
_DISCOVER DORSET FOSSILS RICHARD EDMONDS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with funding from...numbers of people onto the local beaches of West Dorset in search of fossils. In 1997 Richard took up...Jurassic Coast. Following page Monmouth Beach, west of Lyme Regis is an excellent place to discover...by The Dovecote Press Ltd Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 4JD ISBN I 874336 65 2 © Richard Edmonds...Typeset in Sabon by The Typesetting Bureau Wimborne, Dorset Printed and bound by Baskerville Press, Salisbury
Book
JURASSIC COAST he Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset has joined the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier...Point in Exmouth to Old Harry Rocks, beside Studland Bay, this coast provides a walk in time through 180 million... which are listed here in gazetteer format from west to east. Map references are given for reco1nmended...£9.99 I ,\ . ) 6 Withdrawn Stock Dorset Libraries DORSET COUNTY LIBRARY 111111111111111 I IIIIII... GUIDE TO THE DEVON AND DORSET WORLD HERITAGE SITE T RODNEY LEGG Dorset County Library 204058546
Report (edition)
IN TEXT 1. Section along the cliffs from Pinhay Bay past Lyme Regis and Charmouth to near Seatown -1...along cliffs of Kimmeridge Clay near Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset - 25 10. Fossils from the Corallian and the Kimmeridge...39 17. Sections in the Wealden'Beds, in Compton Bay, at Barnes High, and at Cowleaze Chine - ■ -42 18...Upper Cretaceous Unconformity near Holworth House, Dorset - 48 21. Fossils from the Gault and the Upper Greensand...51 22. Sfection from Melcombe Park to near Wool, Dorset - 53 23. Sketch of the Upper Greensand escarpment
Report (edition)
I PAGE I. Section along the clifTs from Pinhay Bay past Lyme Regis and Charmouth to near Scatown .....along cliffs of Kimmeridge Clay near Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset .... 10. Fossils from the Corallian and the Kimmeridge...Beds 17. Sections of the Wcalden Beds, in Compton Bay, at Barnes High, and at Cowleazc Chine ............Upper Cretaceous Unconformity near Holworth House, Dorset 21. Fossils from the Gault and the Upper Greensand.... 22. Section from Mclcombe Park to near Wool, Dorset .... 23. Sketch of the Upper Greensand escarpment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) of the Dorset type area Ramues Gallois' and Steve Etches" GALLOIS...Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) of the Dorset type area. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association...stratotype section at Houns-toutIChapman's Pool in south Dorset is described in detail for the first time, and...correlated with other current exposures in south Dorset and with borehole sequences in more distant areas...EX4 5ER, UK (email: gallois@geologist.co.uk) "Ashfield, Kimmeridge, Wareham, Dorset BH20 5PE, UK 1. INTRODUCTION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
73 THE PETROGRAPHY OF THE PORTLAND SAND OF DORSET. By}l. P. LAITER, B.A ., F .G.S . [R ead May lSI, '...the Upper Kimmeridge Clay and Portland Sand of England generally. The primary basis of the location of...central area round Sutton Poyntz and Osmington, and in the ext reme west , adequate sections were exposed...the outcrop was wholly concealed, e.g., above Osmington Mills and near the White Borse, recourse had to...H . SaHeld, Certain Upper Jurassic St ra ta of England, Q.].G.S., Ixix. ('9'3), pp, 423- 432. t G. W.
Report (chapter)
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...Cults, Aberdeen AB15 9PA, UK 5 41 Montem Road, Newmalden, Surrey KT3 3QU, UK Abstract: The stratigraphy.......... -i " T ~ ~ J 61"N /,/ - ~!son DORSET BASIN afn Farm - ~)8/ 79 -8 Wytch ~5 f ...association with three north-south- and one east-west-trending lines of correlation. There are numerous
Book
Jurassic can be taken as the type of that of North-West Europe, in the most complete development anywhere...L. Richardson, the Inferior Oolite Series from Dorset to Northamptonshire is so thoroughly known that...entirely is geographi- cal. The emphasis laid on Dorset, however, is intentional. The description t Haug...statement on the next page, to the effect that in Dorset: ‘Le Purbeckien repose en discordance sur le Portland...-PLATES West Weare Cliff, Isle of Portland F ‘: . Cliffs of Blue and White Lias, Pinhay Bay, Lyme Regs
Report (issue)
MEM01·as OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ------- ·----- ENGLAND AND WALES. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF PURBECK...H. • BY AUBREY ical Survey Q,ffi � Northern England. STRAHAN, M . .Lt\.., F.G.S. PUBLISHED BY ORDER...allditionM to the literature of tl1e geology of Dorset ,vi)l be found arra11ged in cl1 ronological orcler...contin,10 tl1e ,vork into tl1 e atljacent parts of Dorset. Tl1e task of re­ surveying tl1e classic Isle of...frequently visited part of the southern coast of England. Accordingly �lr. Strahan ,vas instrncted to prepare
Report (volume)
Oxford, UK AND D. N. P A R K I N S O N Western Atlas Logging Services London Geoscience Centre, UK 1996...Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0JU, UK. The Society is a Registered Charity, No. 210161...Brassmill Enterprise Centre Brassmill Lane Bath BAI 3JN UK (Orders: Tel. 01225 445046 Fax 01225 442836) Distributors...379-0444 Fax (08) 379-4634) India Affiliated East-West Press PVT Ltd G-l/16 Ansari Road New Delhi 110 002...Study, Scarborough, UK Printed in Great Britain by The Alden Press, Osney Mead, Oxford, UK Kanda Book Trading
Report (Issue volume)
unvM ,,...-a,..,,,,c1 J;vl!u Oounc ROCKS OF ENGLAND -�l/1 d't.he.H,,11nT� l,y-11... 1J Jf.;.rth1ru·d...that and other localities in the south­ we.,t of England, The Geologic!ll Survey has not hitherto published...rnemoir descriptive of the higher Oolitic strata in Dorset, although 1he admirable 1.{aps and Sections by...further special information on the Jurassic Rocks of England and Wales. It is intended thn,t a concluding volume...CHAPTER XI. LOCA.L DittAilS :­ Isle of Purbeck Ringstead Bay, Upway, and Portisham • Isle of Portland •
Book
- - - - - - Nova Scotia, New BRUNswick, &c. west Isoles - - - BRITISH Columbia - CANADA, continued...129 Australia, continued (Pedestal Case, No. 11, West Side: Gold, &c.) - . 133 - 134 - , 135 - - 135...copper-producing districts are Cornwall, Devonshire (West of Dartmoor), Cumberland, Anglesey, and the counties...CoPPER-GLANCE, well crystallized, on quartz. lized. West Cornwall. 126 & 127. OLIVENITE (amian thiform)...Trebilcock. 166. Part of a lode of COPPER GLANCE. West Cornwall. 153. CoPPER-GLANCE, massive, from a vein
Book
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...Index 292 » Preface To a geologist England’s West Country is classic ground. Not only are its rocks
Journal (issue)
Kimmeridge Clay shows resemblances in detail with the Dorset outcrop. It is faulted against the Corallian Beds...facies. The only previous borehole in southeast England providing as comprehensive a set of cores of Mesozoic...at outcrop. They may indicate a connection to the west of London with marine Barremian sediments known...comparable even in details with the formation in Dorset. The thick Corallian Beds limestone indicates,...which extends through Cudham and Biggin Hill with a west-south-westerly trend (Holmes in Dines and others
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fold between the Purbeck axis on the south and the Dorset downs on the north. These downs occupy a block...Vale of Blackmore. The Trough, is closed on the west, as regards the Tertiary Beds, by the curving round...twelve miles in length from W orbarrow Bay on the west to Swanage Bay on the east, with a maximum width of...crossed by a line drawn from the head of Worbarrow Bay, almost due north to the Frome at Stoke. The northern...is only a few hundred yards. The great easi and west fault once crossed, the indurated chalk is EXCURSION
Book
ZigZag Chalk (10- 30): firm white chalk 40-70 West Melbury Marl y ChaJk (3- 55): soft ma rl y chal...clayey sand 15- 24 Kimmeridge Clay: (including Ringstead "Waxy Clay and 'Ampthill Clay') shelly rn udstone...scenery reflects the underlying geology. Successive west-facing escaq)Inents are formed by the Inferior Oolite...CONTRIBUTORS Memoir for I :50 000 Geological Sheet 297 (England and \,\Tales) BiostratigrajJh)' and sedimentolog;y...vlemoir ofthe British Geological Survey, Sheet 297 (England and vVales). Authors C R Bristow, BSc, PhD C wl
Journal (issue)
..............................................3 West Sussex Geological Society's Weekend, Annual Extended..........................4 In the Beginning -1 he West Sussex Geological Society ...................................... l 0 The Strategic Stone Study in West Sussex .....................................................12 It was the worst of times ... Ringstead Bay. 201h March l 988 ............................Localities and Extent............. 18 Wonders of West Sussex Geology ................................
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554. kearning an |Accession no The Geology of England and Wales Books are to be returned on or before...Pankhurst (UK) Society Books Editors John Gregory (UK) Jim Griffiths (UK) John Howe (UK) Phil Leat (UK) Nick...Nick Robins (UK) Jonathan Turner (UK) Society Books Advisors Mike Brown (USA) Eric Buffetaut (France) Reto...Reto Gieré (Germany) Jon Gluyas (UK) Doug Stead (Canada) Randell Stephenson (Netherlands) Geological...BRENCHLEY, Woopcock, England London, P.J. & Rawson, P.F. (eds) 2006. The Geology of England and Wales. The
Journal (volume)
Weymouth and the adjacent Parts of the Coast of Dorset. By the Rev. William Buckland, F.R.S. {Professor...Chalk and the Oxford Oolite in the South-east of England. By M.D. William Henry Fitton, P.G.S. F.R.S...second column, add the words " a.\so from Eastware Bay, in Kent see p. 114, line 32." 252, 15, 259, ...Weymouth and the adjacent Parts of the Coast of Dorset. By the Rev. W. BUCKLAND, D.D. P.G.S. F.R.S...displayed in the vertical An the south coast of England. Wight and the Isle of the Isle of Purbeck,
 
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