 | | 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...0000davi Crown Copyright Reserved Photo LULWORTH \erial view from HOLE AND by J. X.. St....With Gad LuLWoRTH COVE. Cliff, Hounstout and St. Alban’s in the distance. Head THE DORSET COAST |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 141 FIELD MEETING AT WEYMOUTH, DORSET Saturday, 13th September, to Friday, 19th September, 1947 Report...the down to Holworth, where sections of Lower Purbeck, Portland Stone and Portland Sand were examined...along the cliff path. FIELD MEETING AT WEYMOUTH, DORSET 143 Tuesday, 16th September ISLE OF PORTLAND...Garden," decorated with petrified trees from the Purbeck Beds, fossil "birds' nests" (Cycadeoidea), Portland...balks" are" lawn-sheds." This survival of feudal England is typical of the conservative habits of the Portlanders |  | | Report (edition) | | Kimmeridge Clay (p. 25), Portland Beds (p. 28), Purbeck Beds (p. 34) III. CRETACEOUS - - - STRATA:...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...Portland and the Purbeck Beds ------ 39 17. Sections in the Wealden'Beds, in Compton Bay, at Barnes High...Upper Cretaceous Unconformity near Holworth House, Dorset - 48 21. Fossils from the Gault and the Upper Greensand |  | | Report (edition) | | Kimmeridge Clay (p. 25), Portland Beds (p. 28). Purbeck Beds (p. 34). III. 1 5 CRETACEOUS STRATA: Wealden...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...the Portland and the Purbeck Beds 17. Sections of the Wcalden Beds, in Compton Bay, at Barnes High, and...Upper Cretaceous Unconformity near Holworth House, Dorset 21. Fossils from the Gault and the Upper Greensand |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY ------- ·----- ENGLAND AND WALES. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF PURBECK AND 1VEYMOUT H. • BY...BY AUBREY ical Survey Q,ffi � Northern England. STRAHAN, M . .Lt\.., F.G.S. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE...hav·e n1ucl1 increased ol1r kno,vledge of tl1e Purbeck, Portlan<.l, I{i111 n1eridge, ancl Corallian for1natio11...allditionM to the literature of tl1e geology of Dorset ,vi)l be found arra11ged in cl1 ronological orcler...atljacent parts of Dorset. Tl1e task of re surveying tl1e classic Isle of Purbeck and tl1e region around |  | | 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...remarks on the probably n11.n-ine equivalents of the Purbeck group in Lincolnshire. A.s in previous volumes...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... W. Bristow, and the detailed sections of the Purbeck Becls by that autl1or and Edward Forbes, hav-e |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at Stutton, Suffolk', by B. W. Sparks and R. G. West. 7 February. Papers: (a) 'Some Aspects of Torridonian...read': (a) 'Denudation of the Weald Clay Vale in West Kent', by E. C. F. Bird; (b) 'On Rotten Flint Pebbles...Pebbles in the Palaeogene of Southern England', by Dennis Curry; (c) 'Weathering Units and Weathering...Terminal Curvature Affecting the Cliffs West of Castletown Berehaven, West Cork', by E. B. Selwood and K. Coe...Straits', by C. Embleton; (b) 'The Glacial Sequence in West Caernarvonshire', by F. M. Synge. The following |  | | Report (issue) | | ROCKS OF BRITAIN. GAULT AND UPPER GEEENSAND OF ENGLAND. VOL. I.— THE BY A. J. JUKES-BROWNE, B.A.,... Hanover Street, Edinburgh, .-.^^ »ff|p;and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., Limited...of two in which the Upper Cretaceous Rocks of England will be described. It deals with that portion of...Cretaceous rocks over a large part of the south of England. In pursuance of the scheme for issviing a series...Strahan),^on the Isle of Purbeck (by A. Strahan), those on West Suffolk and West Norfolk (by W. Whitaker |  | | 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...KIMERIDGE CLAY : : : XV. PORTLAND BEDS . ; : : XVI. PURBECK BEDS . : ; c XVII. THE TRANSITION TO THE CRETACEOUS |  | Bristow, C. R., Barton, C. M., Freshney, E. C., Wood, C. J., Evans, D. J., Cox, B. M., Ivimey-Cook, H. C., Taylor, R. T. (1995) Geology of the country around Shaftesbury - Memoir for 1:50 000 geological sheet 313 (England and Wales) British Geological Survey. | Book | | amrcoals 1 Zig Zag Chalk (20-50): firm white chal ae West Melbiry Chalk ie 16): soft marly chalk fi Melbury...around Shaftesbury The Shaftesbury district in north Dorset lies at the western end of the Wessex Basin. The...view of landslips, Shaftesbury, viewed from the west. BRITISH GEOLOGICAL Geology of the country CM...and Memoir for 1:50 000 geological sheet 313 (England and Wales) CONTRIBUTORS Biostratigraphy D KGraham...Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 313 (England and Wales). Other publications of the Survey dealing |  | Stahan, A., Holmes, T. V., Dewey, H., Cunnington, C. H., Simmons, W. C., King, W. B. R., Wray, D. A. (1916) On the Thickness of Strata in the Counties of England and Wales exclusive of Rocks older than the Permian. Memoirs of the Geological Survey - England and Wales. Geological Survey of Great Britain | Report (issue) | | . :....- - MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAij SURVEY ENGLAND .AND WALES • /\)SR A ,?r' ,· . .cl) O.N 1'HE...� 'fHICKNESSES OF STRATA I� THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES EXCLUSIYE OF ROCKS OLDER THAN THE PER...'• 6(1BV!1 :- � '-' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. (OFFICE:...SURVEY ENGLAND AND WALES • ·- • O N THE THICKNESSES OF STRATA IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND ,VALES...$1Ich rec<;>rds of the tliicknesses of st1,ata in England and Wales, as a1--e founded on reliable me-a,surements |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | of two in which the Upper Cretaceous Rocks of England will oe described. It deals with that portion of...Crctacc>onH rocks oYer a large part of the south of England. Tn pin:suance of the scbe1ne for issuing a series...l~l'P}!l1 G1tfil:NSAND (SELJ30R~L.\_.\') lN' SOUTJ-l DORSET A.N D DEVON. Coa.st Section:,; from Golden Cap...mp~hire Sussex £1Sle of \Vight \Vilt!lhire aud Dorset Devonshire Soluble Silica and Artificial Stone...Selbornian or Oa.alt ;;l.([ Upper GEeensand of England INDEX 441 -153 491 • 1980. I' • ILLUSTRA1'JOXS |  | | Book | | Shode Abd-el-Kuri, Geology of, 99, 530 Aberdeen Bay, Movement of Sand in, 85, 515 British Association...Section of Chloritic Marl at Bay, 01, 319 Absence of Glaciation in parts of Mupe Europe and Asia, 92, 54...36, 82 ; ; 84,476; 85,329; 03, 547 Geology of West Swaziland, 99, 105 Goldfields of, 68, 561 Iron and...Implements, 68, 532 Geology of, 78, 312 Africa, West, 79, ; 172 Ag'amennone, G-. 87, 508 Devonian...Passes and Peaks, Sculpture of, 88, 540 573 Alum Bay, Leaf-bed, 65, 515 ; 66, 471 Alveolina and Nummulitic |  | | Book | | Limited The Gresham Press, Old Woking, Surrey, England A member of the Staples Printing Group Preface...English Midlands The Silurian rocks of northern England The Silurian rocks of the south of Scotland The...Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Ireland Cornwall and north-west Europe Silurian fossils 113 122 123 125 127 128... The Devonian System 159 The south-west Peninsula of England The rocks (‘slates’ = Killas) of south...The Variscan fold belt in Britain 244 The South-West Batholith 247 Structures of Malvernian trend 248 |  | | Book (edition) | | Scope of Geology A FORMER Prime Minister of England once described Geology as the great detective science...the battle of Waterloo, but geological map of England of a land surveyor, William as the ‘Father of English...the succes¬ sion of the rock groups or strata of England. With the development of Stratigraphical Geology...that rocks called, for example, Carboniferous in England and in the United States, were laid down during...placed by the Devil to mislead people. Smith in England and, at about the same time, Cuvier in France were |
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