Lulworth Cove

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  Teresa

  Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, Dorset, southern England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Cove

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  Lucianocaldas

  Lulworth Cove, on the south coast of England, world-famous for its geology and geomorphology, is the most-visited geological locality in Britain. It is probably the best training location in the world for geology students. There are excellent exposures of folded Jurassic and Cretaceous strata and on the cliffs to the east is the Fossil Forest with an ancient soil and tree remains. There are glauconitic sandstones, sponge chert, cyclical Chalk, oil sands, lignite, ostracods, stromatolites, crocodile and fish teeth, an oyster bed, a transgressive marine pebble bed, a fluvial channel conglomerate, phosphatic strata, carbonate breccias, charophyte limestones etc. etc. The Lower Cretaceous, Purbeck Formation is contorted into the Lulworth Crumples at Stair Hole and the spectacular coast around here has caves, natural arches, sea-stacks and high cliffs of nearly-vertical Chalk. It can be studied at all levels from beginner level with basic geomorphology, to inversion tectonics and isotope geochemistry and spectral gamma ray logging. It is compact, very easy to get to, and has all necessary facilities including an interpretation centre. It is used by numerous universities, colleges, schools and societies and there are geological parties there almost every day of the year. www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/Lulworth.htm.

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