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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Geology of the Wessex Coast, Southern England by Ian West - Index and Home Page </TITLE> <meta name="description" CONTENT="Geology of the Wessex Coast - home and contents with listing of webpages on specific geological localities and topics"> <meta name="keywords" CONTENT="ammonite, anhydrite, Barton, bay, Bay, beach, beaches, bibliography, Bournemouth, Bridport, Burrington, Carboniferous, Cheddar, Christchurch, clay, Clay, cliff, cliffs, coast, Coast, coastal, content, contents, Cove, Cretaceous, dinosaur, Durlston, earth, England, Eocene, erosion, evaporite, evaporites, field, free, footprints, Forest, fossil, fossils, geology, geological, geography, geological, geomorphology, gorge, gypsum, heritage, Hengistbury, history, Hordle, Hurst, Ian, ichthyosaur, index, Isle, Jurassic, Kimmeridge, lecture, Lias, limestone, limestones, Lulworth, Lyme, Mendip, Mendips, Milford, mineral, minerals, mineralogy, New, note, notes, oil, palaeontology, photograph, photographs, petroleum, plesiosaur, Poole, Portland, Purbeck, quarry, quarries, Regis, research, resourses, rock, rocks, sabkha, salt, sand, sandstone, sea, Sea, section, sedimentary, sedimentology, shore, Solent, south, southern, Spit, strata, stratigraphy, structure, stone, Swanage, trip, Wessex, west, West, Weymouth, Wight, Worbarrow"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC"> West, Ian M. 2020. Geology of the Wessex Coast (including the Dorset Coast - Jurassic Coast - the Isle of Wight, - part of East Devon, - and also Solent Estuaries) - Home and List of Webpages. Geological Internet site: https://wessexcoastgeology.soton.ac.uk. Revised Version: 22nd July, 2020. <CENTER> <A NAME="headpage"> <IMG SRC="jpg-Fossil-Forest/11FF-Wessex-Geology-Title-Forest.jpg"> </A> <A HREF="#contact-Ian"> Ian West </A> Romsey, Hampshire and: a Visiting Scientist at: <A HREF="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/about/faculties-schools-departments/school-of-geography-and-environmental-science"> School of Geography and Environmental Science,</A> <A HREF="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/"> Southampton University, </A> <A HREF="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/">Website hosted by iSolutions</A>, Website archived at the <A HREF="http://www.bl.uk/"> British Library</A> . </CENTER> <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="3"> <CENTER> <A NAME="List-of-Webpages">.</A> <A HREF="index.htm#List-of-Webpages">LIST OF ABOUT 150 GEOLOGICAL WEBPAGES BY IAN WEST </A> </CENTER> (This results from more than 20 years of webpage-writing from 1995 to 2018. Older pages are being updated, and almost all is in a state of continual progress. With about 10,000 images. This whole site can be downloaded in order to archive for non-commercial, academic use, but it is regularly updated in parts from time to time, and continually changing to a small extent.) </CENTER> . <CENTER><A HREF="#headpage"><IMG SRC="gif/sepabar.gif" ALT="Go back to top"></A></CENTER> . <CENTER><A HREF="#headpage"><IMG SRC="gif/sepabar.gif" ALT="Go back to top"></A></CENTER> <A HREF="jpg-Harry-Rocks/9HR-Harry-and-Wife.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Harry-Rocks/9HR-Harry-and-Wife-m.jpg" ALT="Old Harry Rocks, Old Harry and Old Harry's Wife, near Studland, Dorset, 19th August 2009"></A> <A HREF="jpg-Dawlish-Permian/14DWP-Shag-Rock-Large-final.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Dawlish-Permian/14DWP-Shag-Rock-Large-final-m.jpg" ALT="Shag Rock, offshore from Hole Head, Dawlish, shows the Teignmouth Breccias with the usual sedimentary cycles and the lenticular red mud layers, Permian strata, Dawlish, Devon, photograph by Ian West, 30th October 2014"></A> <A HREF="jpg-Kimmeridge/12KM-Kimmeridge-Gale-2012.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Kimmeridge/12KM-Kimmeridge-Gale-2012-m.jpg" ALT=" Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, in a southwesterly gale, 24th September 2012"></A> <A HREF="jpg-Kimmeridge/14KM-Ian-West-Examines-Oil-Shale.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Kimmeridge/14KM-Ian-West-Examines-Oil-Shale-m.jpg" ALT="Ian West examines the Kimmeridge Oil Shale or Blackstone, near Rope Lake Head, east of Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, 31st March 2014"></A> . </CENTER> <TABLE CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="2" BORDER="2" WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC"> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH="50%">  INTRODUCTION AND BRITAIN, GENERAL <A HREF="Geology-Britain.htm">Geology of Britain - Introduction with Geological Maps</A> <A HREF="Field-Guides-Introduction.htm">Geology of Wessex Coast - Introduction with Geol Maps</A> <A HREF="index.htm">Geology Wessex Coast - Home and List of Webpages (this)</A>  BARTON, HORDLE CLIFF AND CHRISTCHURCH BAY, TERTIARY CLIFF EXPOSURES <A HREF="barton.htm">Barton and Highcliffe - Barton Clay and Barton Sand (Eocene)</A> <A HREF="barteros.htm">Barton and Highcliffe - Coast Erosion and Sea Defences - General</A> <A HREF="Barton-Erosion-History.htm">Barton - and Highcliffe - History of Coast Erosion and Sea Defences</A> <A HREF="hordle.htm"> Hordle Cliff - Headon Hill Formation</A> <A HREF="bartbib.htm">Barton - Highcliffe, and Hordle Cliff, Geological Bibliography</A> <A HREF="Hurst-Castle-Spit.htm">Hurst Spit, Hampshire</A> <A HREF="Milford-on-Sea.htm">Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire</A> BOURNEMOUTH AREA, EAST DORSET, TERTIARY CLIFFS <A HREF="Bournemouth-Geology.htm">Bournemouth Geology - Cliffs, Eocene sands, clay and plant beds</A> <A HREF="Hengistbury-Head-Geology-Revised.htm">Hengistbury Head - Eocene strata and Mudeford Spit, revised</A> <A HREF="hengbib.htm">Hengistbury Head - Bibliography</A> <A HREF="Sandbanks.htm">Sandbanks Sand Spit, Geomorphology</A> <A HREF="Brownsea-Island-Geology.htm">Brownsea Island, Poole Harbour </A> BRIDPORT AREA, LOWER JURASSIC, WEST DORSET <A HREF="Bridport-Sands-East-Cliff.htm">Bridport - East Cliff </A> <A HREF="West-Bay-Harbour-Beach.htm">Bridport Harbour and Beach</A> <A HREF="Bridport-West.htm">Bridport - West Bay - West Cliff to Eype Mouth</A> <A HREF="burton.htm">Burton Bradstock, Burton Cliff </A> <A HREF="Golden-Cap.htm">Golden Cap and Seatown, Jurassic</A> <A HREF="Eype.htm">Eype Mouth, Jurassic (in prep)</A>  CHESIL BEACH, DORSET (See also - Portland) <A HREF="chesil.htm">Chesil Beach - General </A> <A HREF="chestorm.htm">Chesil Beach - Hurricanes, Storms and Storm Surges </A> <A HREF="chespeb.htm">Chesil Beach - Pebbles, including rare rock types </A> <A HREF="cheslode.htm">Chesil Beach - Magnetite, Lodestone, Pebbles from Shipwreck</A> <A HREF="Fleet-Lagoon.htm"> Chesil Beach - the Fleet Lagoon (in prep)</A> <A HREF="chesbib.htm">Chesil Beach - Geological Bibliography</A>  EAST DEVON, TRIASSIC RED BEDS AND CRETACOUS <A HREF="Dawlish-Warren.htm">Dawlish Warren Sand Spit, Exe Estuary</A> <A HREF="Teignmouth-Dawlish.htm">Dawlish to Teignmouth cliffs, including the coastal railway line.</A> <A HREF="Teignmouth-Dawlish.htm">Teignmouth to Dawlish, with sea-wall and railway line.</A> <A HREF="Lyme-Regis-Westward.htm">West of Lyme Regis and Axmouth-Lyme Undercliffs</A> <A HREF="Beer.htm">Beer and Seaton </A> <A HREF="Sidmouth-Devon.htm">Sidmouth and Ladram Bay</A> <A HREF="Budleigh-Salterton.htm">Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth and Littleham Cove</A> <A HREF="Budleigh-Salterton.htm">Littleham Cove and Radioactive Nodules(second half of Budleigh Webpage)</A> <A HREF="Dartmoor.htm">Dartmoor Granite </A> <A HREF="Torquay.htm">Torquay and Babbacombe</A> SWANAGE AREA, DURLSTON, UPPER JURASSIC AND CRETACEOUS, DORSET <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Peveril-Point.htm">Peveril Point, Durlston Bay</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Middle-Purbeck.htm">Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck (Berriasian - Cretaceous) </A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Lower-Purbeck.htm">Swanage - Durlston Bay - Lower Purbeck (Jurassic-Cretaceous)</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Central-Zigzag.htm">Durlston Bay - Central Zigzag Part and Coast Erosion</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Head.htm">Durlston Head - Lower Purbeck Group and Portland Stone</A> <A HREF="durlbib.htm">Durlston Bay - Geological Bibliography </A> <A HREF="Swanworth-Quarry.htm">Swanworth Quarry, Portland and Purbeck, with Kimmeridge Boreholes</A> .  ISLE OF WIGHT, CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY GEOLOGY <A HREF="wight.htm">ISLE OF WIGHT GEOLOGY - INTRODUCTION </A> <A HREF="Whitecliff-Bay.htm">Whitecliff Bay, Tertiary </A> <A HREF="Alum-Bay.htm">Alum Bay, Tertiary coloured sands</A> <A HREF="Needles.htm">The Needles, Chalk Stacks, </A> <A HREF="Colwell-Bay-Wight.htm">Colwell Bay, northwestern Isle of Wight</A> <A HREF="Wight-Brighstone-Bay.htm">Brighstone Bay, Compton Bay, Isle of Wight</A> <A HREF="Isle-of-Wight-Bibliography.htm">Isle of Wight Geology - Bibliography </A> KIMMERIDGE AREA,KIMMERIDGE CLAY AND OIL SHALE, DORSET <A HREF="Kimmeridge-Bay.htm">KIMMERIDGE - BAY, INTRODUCTION </A> <A HREF="Kimmeridge-East-Yellow-Ledge.htm">Kimmeridge - East to Hen Cliff, Yellow Ledge and Cuddle </A> <A HREF="Kimmeridge-Oil-Shale.htm">Kimmeridge - East, Blackstone, OIL SHALE, near Clavell's Hard </A> <A HREF="kimfire.htm">Kimmeridge - East, Burning Beach, Burning Cliffs - oil shale fires </A> <A HREF="Kimmeridge-Rope-Lake-Head-Geology.htm">Kimmeridge - East, Rope Lake Head to Freshwater Steps</A> <A HREF="Chapmans-Pool.htm">Kimmeridge - East, Chapman's Pool, Houns-tout (Hounstout) Cliff and Egmont Bight</A> <A HREF="Kimmeridge-Brandy-Bay.htm">Kimmeridge - West to Hobarrrow Bay, Brandy Bay and Gad Cliff </A> <A HREF="kimfoss.htm">Kimmeridge - Fossils, ammonites, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, etc</A> <A HREF="Swanworth-Quarry.htm">Kimmeridge Clay Boreholes at Swanworth Quarry</A> <A HREF="kimref.htm">Kimmeridge - Bibliography - Start - Main Part. </A> <A HREF="krefmor.htm">Kimmeridge - Bibliography Continued. </A> <A HREF="Petroleum-Geology-Weald-Shale.htm">Petroleum Geology of South Downs and western Weald - including Shale Oil</A>  LULWORTH COVE AREA, JURASSIC AND CRETACEOUS, DORSET <A HREF="Lulworth-Cove-Introduction.htm">LULWORTH COVE - GEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION </A> <A HREF="Lulworth-Purbeck-East.htm">Lulworth Cove - Purbeck Group - East Side of Cove</A> <A HREF="Lulworth-Purbeck-West.htm">Lulworth Cove - Purbeck Group - West Side of Cove</A> <A HREF="Fossil-Forest.htm">Fossil Forest, Lulworth - Part 1 - the Geology of the Ledge</A> <A HREF="Fossil-Forest-Purbeck-Trees.htm">Fossil Forest, Lulworth - Part 2 - the Fossil Trees</A> <A HREF="Stair-Hole-Lulworth.htm">Stair Hole, Purbeck and Wealden </A> <A HREF="dungy.htm">Dungy Head and St. Oswald's Bay</A> <A HREF="dungy.htm">Lulworth Area - St. Oswald's Bay and Dungy Head</A> <A HREF="durdle.htm">Durdle Door, Lulworth </A> <A HREF="White-Nothe-Bats-Head.htm">White Nothe to Bats Head (west of Durdle Door) </A> <A HREF="mupe.htm">Mupe Bay and Bacon Hole (in Army Range, east of Lulworth Cove) </A> <A HREF="worbar.htm">Lulworth Area - Worbarrow Bay, in the Army Range </A> <A HREF="lulref.htm">Lulworth Area - Geological Bibliography</A> <A HREF="lulstrat.htm">Lulworth Area - Strata and Fossils (additional notes)</A> <A HREF="worbar.htm">Worbarrow Bay </A>  LYME REGIS AND CHARMOUTH - LIAS, JURASSIC, WEST DORSET <A HREF="Lyme-Regis-Westward.htm">Lyme Regis west to Monmouth Beach, Pinhay Bay and Undercliffs</A> <A HREF="Lyme-Regis-to-Charmouth.htm">Lyme Regis and Black Ven east to Charmouth</A> <A HREF="Lyme-Regis-Seafront.htm">Lyme Regis - Town and Seafront </A> <A HREF="Charmouth-East-Stonebarrow-Hill.htm">Charmouth, Stonebarrow Hill, St. Gabriel's </A> <A HREF="liasfos.htm">Liassic Fossils </A> <A HREF="lymebib.htm">Lyme Regis - Geological Bibliography</A> <A HREF="kimfire.htm">Lyme Regis - Burning Cliffs and the Lyme Volcano </A> <A HREF="Golden-Cap.htm">Golden Cap and Seatown</A>  NEW FOREST GEOLOGY, HAMPSHIRE AND DORSET <A HREF="New-Forest-Geology-Guide.htm">New Forest - Geology Guide</A> <A HREF="New-Forest-Geology-Bibliography.htm">New Forest - Geology - Bibliography </A> <A HREF="Beaulieu-River-Estuary.htm">Beaulieu River Estuary </A> <A HREF="Lepe-Beach.htm">Lepe Beach and Stone Point</A> <A HREF="Lymington-Keyhaven.htm">Lymington, Keyhaven, West Solent</A> <A HREF="Studley-Wood-New-Forest.htm">New Forest - Studley Wood and Upper Latchmore Brook (nr Bramshaw Telegraph)</A> <A HREF="Milford-on-Sea.htm">Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire</A> <A HREF="hordle.htm"> Hordle Cliff - Headon Hill Formation</A> MENDIP HILLS AND CARBONIFEROUS <A HREF="Cheddar-Gorge.htm">Cheddar Gorge Geology </A> <A HREF="Carboniferous-Bibliography.htm">Carboniferous, Mendips - Bibliography </A> <A HREF="Burrington-Combe-New-2018.htm">Burrington Combe</A> [in preparation] </A> <A HREF="Mendip-Hills.htm">Mendip Hills, Carboniferous - Quarries etc. </A> [in prep.] <A HREF="Visean-Evaporites.htm">Ireland - Carboniferous Evaporites of County Leitrim, Ireland</A> [paper] OSMINGTON, RINGSTEAD AND WHITE NOTHE, CORALLIAN, KIMMERIDGE AND CRETACEOUS. <A HREF="osmill.htm">Osmington Mills - Introduction - Upper Jurassic </A> <A HREF="osring.htm">Osmington Mills - Osmington Mills to Ringstead </A> <A HREF="osben.htm">Osmington Mills - Corallian Bencliff Grit and Oil-sand </A> <A HREF="Osmington-Oolite.htm">Osmington Mills - Osmington Oolite Formation, Corallian, Upper Jurassic</A> <A HREF="osblack.htm">Osmington Mills - Black Head Area, Kimmeridge Clay</A> <A HREF="Corallian-Fossils.htm">Osmington Mills - Corallian Fossils</A> <A HREF="osbiblio.htm">Osmington Mills - Corallian Bibliography </A> <A HREF="Ringstead-White-Nothe.htm">Osmington Mills - Region - Ringstead Bay - White Nothe, Dorset</A> <A HREF="White-Nothe-Bats-Head.htm">Osmington Mills - Region - White Nothe to Bats Head (in prep)</A> <A HREF="Bowleaze-Redcliff.htm">Osmington Mills - Region -Bowleaze Cove to Redcliff Point</A> (in prep) <A HREF="Poxwell-Quarry.htm">Poxwell Quarry and Poxwell Anticline </A>.  </TD> <TD WIDTH="50%">  PETROLEUM GEOLOGY - OIL AND GAS, SOUTH OF ENGLAND <A HREF="Oil-South-of-England.htm">Petroleum Geology - South of England</A> <A HREF="Petroleum-Geology-Weald-Shale.htm">Petroleum Geology of the Western Weald and South Downs (Shale Oil etc.)</A> <A HREF="Oil-South-Bibliography.htm">Petroleum Geology - South of England - Bibliography [Oil South Bibliography]</A> </A> <A HREF="Petroleum-South-Portland-Wight-Basin.htm">Petroleum Geology - Portland - Isle of Wight Offshore Basin</A> <A HREF="osben.htm">Osmington Mills - Corallian Bencliff Grit and Oil-sand </A> <A HREF="Kimmeridge-Oil-Shale.htm">Kimmeridge - Oil Shale at Clavell's Hard mining area </A> <A HREF="kimfire.htm">Kimmeridge - East, Burning Beach, Burning Cliffs - oil shale fires </A> <A HREF="Swanworth-Quarry.htm">Kimmeridge Clay Boreholes at Swanworth Quarry</A> <A HREF="Poxwell-Quarry.htm">Poxwell Quarry and Poxwell Anticline - Details </A>.  PORTLAND - ISLE OF PORTLAND, PORTLAND STONE, DORSET <A HREF="Portland-Isle-Geological-Introduction.htm">Portland - Isle of, Geology - General Introduction</A> <A HREF="Portland-Bill-2017.htm">Portland - Portland Bill, Portland Stone, Purbeck, Cryoturbation </A> <A HREF="Portland-Quarries.htm">Portland - Portland Stone Quarries</A> <A HREF="withies.htm">Portland - Quarry - Withies Croft, Portland Stone</A> <A HREF="chesil.htm">Portland - The Chesil Beach - Great Shingle Beach </A> <A HREF="portdino.htm">Portland - Dinosaur Footprints in Purbeck Group </A> <A HREF="Fossil-Forest-Purbeck-Trees.htm">Purbeck - Formation - Fossil Forest and Isle of Portland Fossil Trees</A> <A HREF="Portland-Harbour.htm">Portland - Portland Harbour, Jurassic </A> <A HREF="portmutton.htm">Portland - Coast - Mutton Cove to Wallsend, Portland Stone</A> <A HREF="portfoss.htm">Portland - Portland Group Fossils</A> <A HREF="portbib.htm">Portland - Isle of - Geological Bibliography </A>  PURBECK GROUP, UPPER JURASSIC - LOWER CRETACEOUS, DORSET (LULWORTH AND DURLSTON FORMATIONS) <A HREF="purbfac.htm">Purbeck Group, - Facies (Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous) </A> <A HREF="Purbeck-evaporites.htm">Purbeck - Evaporites (late Jurassic) </A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Peveril-Point.htm">Purbeck - Durlston Bay, Swanage - Peveril Point, Upper Purbeck</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Middle-Purbeck.htm">Purbeck - Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck Group </A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Lower-Purbeck.htm">Purbeck - Durlston Bay - Lower Purbeck Group.</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Central-Zigzag.htm">Purbeck - Durlston Bay - Central Zigzag Part and Erosion</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Head.htm">Purbeck - Durlston Head - Lower Purbeck and Portland Stone</A> <A HREF="Purbeck-Bibliography.htm">Purbeck Group - Geological Bibliography - General </A> <A HREF="purb-al.htm">Purbeck Group - Geological Bibliography - Topics, Alphabetic.</A> <A HREF="durdle.htm">Purbeck Group - Durdle Door, natural arch </A> <A HREF="Fossil-Forest.htm">Purbeck - Group - Fossil Forest Exposure, thrombolites, evaporites</A> <A HREF="Fossil-Forest-Purbeck-Trees.htm">Purbeck - Group - Fossil Forest and Isle of Portland Fossil Trees</A> <A HREF="Ridgeway-Railway-Cutting.htm">Purbeck - Ridgway Railway Cutting, Weymouth - Purbeck Group</A> <A HREF="Portesham-Rocket-Quarry.htm">Purbeck - Portesham Quarry, north of Weymouth.</A> <A HREF="Poxwell-Quarry.htm">Purbeck - Poxwell Quarry, east of Weymouth</A>. <A HREF="portdino.htm">Purbeck Group - Dinosaur Footprints of the Isle of Portland</A> <A HREF="Purbeck-Dinoprints.htm">Purbeck Group - Dinosaur Footprints of Quarries in the Isle of Purbeck</A> <A HREF="purbdin.htm">Purbeck - Group - Bibliography - Vertebrates</A> <A HREF="purban.htm">Purbeck - Group - Analogues </A> SOLENT ESTUARINE SYSTEM, AND SOUTHAMPTON REGION <A HREF="Solent-Introduction.htm">Solent - Estuaries - Geological Introduction</A> [with some photographs and notes, re Hythe, Southampton Boreholes etc.] </A> <A HREF="Beaulieu-River-Estuary.htm">Solent - Beaulieu River Estuary, Geomorphology </A> <A HREF="Solent-Boreholes.htm">Solent - Boreholes with geological data</A> <A HREF="Solent-Bibliography-General.htm">Solent - Geology Bibliography - General </A> <A HREF="Solent-Bibliography-Topics.htm">Solent - Geology Bibliography - Topics, Alphabetically </A> <A HREF="Calshot-Spit-Stanswood-Bay.htm">Calshot Spit, Stanswood Bay, Tertiary and Pleistocene </A> <A HREF="Hill-Head.htm">Chilling, Brownwich Cliffs and Hill Head, Southampton Water</A> <A HREF="Lepe-Beach.htm">Lepe Beach and Stone Point - Geology, Geomorphology</A> <A HREF="Lymington-Keyhaven.htm">Lymington, Keyhaven and West Solent - Pitts Deep - Geology</A> <A HREF="Lymington-Keyhaven.htm">Pitts Deep and Tanners Lane, Solent - Geology and Coast Erosion</A> <A HREF="ship.htm">Solent - Submerged Forest off Hayling Island</A> <A HREF="Sarsens-Erratics.htm">Sarsens and Erratics of the Wessex Coast</A> <A HREF="Fawley-Power-Station-geology.htm">Solent - Geology of Fawley Power Station, Tertiary and Pleistocene</A> <A HREF="Hurst-Castle-Spit.htm">Hurst Spit, Geomorphology and Rocks. </A> <A HREF="Hurst-Spit-Historic-Coastal-Events.htm">Hurst Spit - Historic Coastal Events </A> <A HREF="Milford-on-Sea.htm">Milford-on-Sea </A> <A HREF="hordle.htm"> Hordle Cliff - Headon Hill Formation </A> <A HREF="Selsey-Bracklesham.htm">Selsey Bill and Bracklesham Bay </A> STUDLAND AND SANDBANKS, DORSET (see also Bournemouth) <A HREF="Studland.htm">Studland and South Haven Peninsula - General </A> <A HREF="Studland-Poole-Harbour-Side.htm">Studland - Peninsula - Poole Harbour Side, Tertiary and Pleistocene. </A> <A HREF="Studland-Tertiary.htm">Studland - Tertiary Cliffs and the Agglestone Rock</A> <A HREF="Harry-Rocks.htm">Harry Rocks to Ballard Point, Chalk Cliffs</A> <A HREF="Studland-Bibliography.htm">Studland and Harry Rocks; Geological Bibliography</A> <A HREF="Brownsea-Island-Geology.htm">Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour - Tertiary Geology</A> <A HREF="Sandbanks.htm">Studland - Area - Sandbanks - Sand Spit, Geomorphology and Sediments</A> SWANAGE, DORSET <A HREF="Harry-Rocks.htm">Harry Rocks to Ballard Point - Geology, Chalk Cliffs.</A> <A HREF="Swanage-Ballard.htm">Swanage - Bay and Ballard Cliff - Cretaceous Geology</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Peveril-Point.htm">Durlston Bay, Peveril Point, Upper Purbeck Group</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Middle-Purbeck.htm">Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck Group. </A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Lower-Purbeck.htm">Durlston Bay - Lower Purbeck Group.</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Bay-Central-Zigzag.htm">Swanage - Durlston Bay - Central Zigzag Part, Purbeck Group.</A> <A HREF="Durlston-Head.htm">Swanage - Durlston Head - Lower Purbeck Group & Portland Stone.</A> <A HREF="Swanworth-Quarry.htm">Swanworth Quarry, Worth Matravers, Portland Stone.</A> <A HREF="durlbib.htm">Durlston Bay - Bibliography </A> SWANAGE, ISLE OF PURBECK - COAST TO THE WEST <A HREF="aldhelm.htm">St. Aldhelm's Head, Geology, Portland Stone </A> <A HREF="Chapmans-Pool.htm"> Chapman's Pool, Houns-tout (Hounstout) Cliff and Egmont Bight</A> <A HREF="Winspit-Seacombe.htm">Winspit and Seacombe, - Portland Stone</A> <A HREF="Dancing-Ledge.htm">Dancing Ledge and Adjacent Coast.</A> <A HREF="Anvil-Point-Blackers-Hole.htm">Anvil Point to Blackers Hole, Portland Stone.</A> <A HREF="ald-bib.htm">St. Aldhelm's Hd to Durlston Head - Bibliography </A> <A HREF="Swanworth-Quarry.htm">Swanworth Quarry, Worth Matravers, Portland Stone.</A> WEYMOUTH, DORSET - INLAND AND ADJACENT <A HREF="Ridgeway-Railway-Cutting.htm">Ridgway Railway Cutting and Weymouth Relief Road.</A> <A HREF="Portesham-Rocket-Quarry.htm">Portesham Quarry, Purbeck Group </A> <A HREF="Fleet-Lagoon.htm">Fleet Lagoon, back of Chesil Beach</A> <A HREF="Portland-Harbour.htm">Portland Harbour, Jurassic exposures </A>  SABKHA AND ARID ENVIRONMENTS [some of these pages may be held offline at the present time] <A HREF="sabkha.htm">Sabkhas - and Arid Environments - Introduction </A> <A HREF="Qatar-Sabkhas.htm">Sabkhas [Q] - Sabkhas, Salt Lakes and Arid Environments</A> <A HREF="Sabkhas-Bibliography.htm">Sabkhas - Select Bibiography of Sabkhas, Salt Lakes and Evaporites. </A> MISCELLANEOUS, SUPPLEMENTARY WEBPAGES (in progress or incomplete) <A HREF="Earthquakes-South-England.htm">Earthquakes and Tsunamis, South of England [in prog.] </A> <A HREF="Cyprus-Akrotiri-Lake-Coast.htm">Cyprus - Geology of Salt Lake and Akortiri Peninsula </A> <A HREF="staithes.htm">Staithes, Yorkshire - Lower Jurassic </A> </A> <A HREF="Questions-Exercises.htm">Questions and Exercises in Geology </A> <A HREF="pyrnvert.htm">Vertebrate Remains, Eocene, Pyrenees. </A> PAPERS BY IAN WEST <A HREF="westpubl.htm">Publication List of Ian West.</A> <A HREF="Papers-West-Purbeck-Evaporites-1975.htm">Evaporites and Associated Sediments of the Basal Purbeck Group of Dorset, 1975</A> <A HREF="Papers-West-Holocene-1972.htm">Holocene Deposits of Fawley, Hampshire, and Development of Southampton Water, by F. Hodson and I.M. West, 1972 </A> <A HREF="Papers-West-Review-Diagenesis-1979.htm">Review of Evaporite Diagenesis in the Purbeck Formation of Southern England. 1979.</A> <A HREF="Papers-Detrital-Portland-Chert.html">Detrital Portland Chert and Limestone in the Upper Purbeck Beds at Friar Waddon, Dorset. </A> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <CENTER><A HREF="#headpage"><IMG SRC="gif/sepabar.gif" ALT="Go back to top"></A></CENTER> Click on images for large, high resolution versions! (do not use browser zoom on the low resolution versions) <A HREF="jpg-Kimmeridge/10KM-Ian-West-Clavell-Fault.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Kimmeridge/10KM-Ian-West-Clavell-Fault-m.jpg" ALT="Ian West at the extensional fault at the eastern end of the Clavell's Hard mining ledge, Kimmeridge, Dorset, 2010"></A> <A HREF="jpg-Lulworth/4LC-Stair-draw.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Lulworth/4LC-Stair-draw-m.jpg" ALT="Stair Hole, viewed from the western side, with Lulworth Cove beyond, West Lulworth, Dorset, Wessex coast"></A> </CENTER> </CENTER> This is the first page of a large set of Geological descriptive pages on the Wessex Coast of southern England, much of it a UNESCO World Heritage Site ("Jurassic Coast"). This is a classic area of East Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight. These geological webpages form one of the world's largest geological web sites with more than 100 separate web pages. The first versions were placed online in 1997 and they are improved and enlarged on a daily basis. There are now thousands of full screen, colour photographs of varied geological and geomorphological features and there are also associated geological bibliographies. The text in each webpage has linked references to the appropriate bibliography. The study and descriptions have emphasis on the superb coastal exposures of Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Palaeogene strata are well-seen in the cliffs of this beautiful coastline. The various localities, many of them well-known classic sites, are described in terms of stratigraphy, sedimentology, geomorphology, faunal content and coast erosion and progradation, in addition to general background information on the environment. In additional there are some associated webpages on other specific geological topics such as sabkhas and Pyrenean geology. A search entry box will be found below. This site has very heavy use - more than half a million requests per week, including each photographic image. Thus, it is no longer necessary to keep any records of use, and there is no objective in obtaining additional visitors, although they are, of course, very welcome. The main aim is to improve the quality of the site academically for existing users and to provide an even greater quantity of detailed and reliable geological information. Some safety guidance and safety warnings are given in specific webpages. These warnings are not comprehensive and may not be sufficient for all types of groups visiting the coast. The objectives of the website relate primarily to field work by geologists, researchers, university students, visiting groups or scientific societies and the safety warnings are intended primarily for these types of visitors. This website is frequently used by schools and such use is welcomed. However, some field localities, cliff sites etc, which are commonly visited by geologists may be unsuitable in terms of safety for school parties or individual children, and the website is not specifically planned as guidance for this type of field use. It is hoped that schools and school parties find it useful, but more stringent safety rules may be needed in the field (the author has experience only of leading university, society and oil company parties). Thus this is primarily a geological website for geologists, but it is intended also to be useful for other purposes, including information for general visitors and school parties. . The technical level of the website is not at mathematical research level, but only at intermediate geological level, easily readable by anyone with a degree in geology, equivalent amateur experience, or just a geological interest. <CENTER><A HREF="#headpage"><IMG SRC="gif/sepabar.gif" ALT="Go back to top"></A></CENTER> <A NAME="Links-Wessex-Coast"> Some Selected Links on Wessex Coast Geology </A> <A HREF="http://www.jurassiccoast.com/">Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. </A> The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site is England's first natural World Heritage Site - it is known as The Jurassic Coast. It covers 95 miles of coastline from East Devon to Dorset, with rocks recording 185 million years of the Earth's history. <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="1"> <A HREF="http://www.channelcoast.org/">The Channel Coastal Observatory </A>, Southampton University, Southampton Large-scale, vertical, aerial photographs of the Wessex Coast are available free for downloading to persons who register with this organisation. In addition there is much more technical information, such as Lidar and Multibeam Bathymetry. This is a highly recommended website. The following notes are from the Channel Coastal Observatory website. "..The Channel Coastal Observatory is the data management and regional coordination centre for the Southeast Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme. The programme provides a consistent regional approach to coastal process monitoring, providing information for development of strategic shoreline management plans, coastal defence strategies and operational management of coastal protection and flood defence. The programme is managed on behalf of the Coastal Groups of the Southeast of England and is funded by DEFRA, in partnership with local Authorities of the southeast of England and the Environment Agency. The Channel Coastal Observatory is hosted by New Forest District Council, in partnership with the University of Southampton." <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="1"> <A HREF="http://www.dorsetgeologistsassociation.com/">Dorset Geologists' Association Group.</A> This very active, local organisation holds field trips and lectures in Dorset and surrounding areas. These is not necessarily limited to famous locations but also to less well known coastal and inland areas. They are involved in many other activities, such as keeping local records, and these are listed on their website. Their Newsletter, which is online, contains reports on field trips. <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="1"> <A HREF="http://www.exmouthtomilfordonsea1800-2000.info/index.html">Dorset Historic Coastal Photographs</A>. Exmouth to Milford on Sea 1800-2000 (including the East Devon and Dorset World Heritage Site).</A> by Doreen Smith of the Dorset Group of the Geologists' Association. These pages grew out of an original project to celebrate 150 years of the Geologists' Association and 200 years of the Geological Society. To this end I began collecting postcards, magic lantern slides, etchings and whatever else I could obtain on the subject of the WHS coastline. [continues] <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="1"> <A HREF="http://maps.lynxinfo.co.uk/UKOGL/mapviewer.jsf">UK Onshore Geophysical Library </A>. This is the major source of onshore seismic data for the UK, including that of the Wessex Coast area, suc as Devon, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. "With over 75,000km of available seismic survey data as acquired by the onshore exploration industry, the Library strives to locate all available data items pertaining to each seismic profile, with the aim of providing a fully reconciled archive of original pre-stack field records de-multiplexed to SEG-Y." Shown here is a north-south seismic section across the Weymouth Anticline, modified and with some notes added. See the original seismic section by going to the website: <A HREF="http://www.ukogl.org.uk/"> UK Onshore Geophysical Library</A>. <A HREF="jpg-Weymouth-Relief-Road/10WRR-Seismic-Section-Weymouth-Anticline.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Weymouth-Relief-Road/10WRR-Seismic-Section-Weymouth-Anticline-m.jpg" ALT="Weymouth Relief Road, Dorset"></A> <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="1"> DIGS, 2009. The Purbeck Limestone Group: Virtual geology field trips to Purbeck limestone quarries in south Dorset. CD. For more details see: <A HREF="Purbeck-Bibliography.htm#DIGS"> DIGS in the Purbeck Group Bibliography.</A> <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="1"> <A HREF="http://www.gesource.ac.uk/about.html"> Gesource: geography and environment gateway for UK HE and FE. </A> GEsource is the geography and environment hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). GEsource provides access to high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in geography and the environment through five distinct subject gateways: Environment, General Geography, Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Techniques and Approaches. <HR COLOR="#00FFFF" SIZE="1"> <A HREF="http://www.wessexhgpg.org.uk/Eye-in-the-Sky/eye-in-the-sky-0707.htm"> Wessex Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club</A>. "Eye in the Sky" - superb oblique aerial photographs of the Wessex Coast. See <A HREF="http://www.wessexhgpg.org.uk/index.asp"> Home Page of Wessex Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club.</A> <CENTER><A HREF="#headpage"><IMG SRC="gif/sepabar.gif" ALT="Go back to top"></A></CENTER> <A NAME="ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS </A> I am very grateful to the many people and organisations who have helped in one way or another to make it possible to run this website. Individual acknowledgements are given in particular webpages on specific places. Southampton University has supported this site over the years. I particularly thank the Head of the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Science and the Environment, Professor Jonathon Bull, Professor Max Barton, Dr. Ian Croudace and others who have helped keep the website running. I particularly thank Frances Bradbury for regular help over the years. I very much appreciate the cooperation of the <A HREF="http://www.channelcoast.org/"> Channel Coastal Observatory </A> in making available excellent aerial photographs of the region of study. I particularly appreciate the generous cooperation of <A HREF="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/iss/"> iSolutions</A>, Southampton University. Mark Watts of Computer Services of Southampton University is thanked for solving a problem of image files that had temporarily ,misplaced. It is very good to know that this website is backed up on tape by computer services, in addition to my various personal, external hard drive backups. My family have assisted in many ways with regard to this website and their help is greatfully acknowledged. <CENTER><A HREF="#headpage"><IMG SRC="gif/sepabar.gif" ALT="Go back to top"></A></CENTER> <A HREF="jpg-Ian-West/19WB-Ian-West-Photography.jpg"><IMG SRC="jpg-Ian-West/19WB-Ian-West-Photography-m.jpg" ALT="Ian West on the main beach of Worbarrow Bay, 15th August, 2019"></A> Dr. Ian West is a university geologist, long a member of staff of Southampton University, now officially retired, with status of Visiting Scientist, but very busy with geological website and works almost every day (from home, but in contact with the university server). He is a carbonate-evaporite sedimentologist and Jurassic enthusiast, who has long studied and researched on the Wessex Coast (and also in North Africa etc). He started by collecting vertebrate fossils from the local strata, in the early 1950s. He is often out on the cliffs of the Wessex Coast studying and photographing for this website. In addition to geology, Ian is also a former New Forest, Escort Rider and has ridden about 7000 miles as a ride-leader. This website is run, privately and unfunded, from his study at home in Romsey, Hampshire with the helpful cooperation of the <A HREF="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/faculties/faculty_natural_environmental_sciences.html"> Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences,</A> , Southampton University, and iSolutions (computer services) Southampton University. These webpages have been written with the generous background support of Ian's daughters, Tonya Loades and Joanna Bentley, and this is very much appreciated. . Ian West has been awarded the R.H. Worth Prize for 2008 of the <A HREF="http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/index.html"> Geological Society of London</A> for this website, <A HREF="index.htm"> the Geology of the Wessex Coast</A>, of which this webpage is the introductory part. The main agent, in addition to Ian West, (ianmichaelwest@gmail.com), regarding this website is his daughter, Tonya West, at her farm at Coppits, Copythorne, near Newbridge, New Forest, Hampshire, email - tonyawesty@hotmail.co.uk (copyright and photography agent). COPYRIGHT REGULATIONS REGARDING THIS WEBPAGE AND THIS WEBSITE. Copyright © 2020 Ian West, Tonya Loades and Joanna Bentley. All rights reserved. This is a private, academic website intended to be useful for research, reference and educational purposes. Images and text may not be copied for publication or for use on other websites, without permission, or for any commercial activity. A reasonable number of images and some text may be used for non-commercial, non-charged, non-online and non-published academic purposes, including field trip handouts, student projects, dissertations etc, providing the source is acknowledged. All images so used must contain the original caption, including the copyright statement. Some images are not those of the author and the copyright is that of the original photographer and these are not for any use without specific permission from the source photographer. This particularly applies to aerial photographs, but also to some sets of field photographs. Disclaimer: Geological fieldwork involves some level of risk, which can be reduced by knowledge, experience and appropriate safety precautions. Persons undertaking field work should assess the risk, as far as possible, in accordance with weather, conditions on the day and the type of persons involved. In providing field guides on the Internet no person is advised here to undertake geological field work in any way that might involve them in unreasonable risk from cliffs, ledges, rocks, sea or other causes. Not all places need be visited and the descriptions and photographs here can be used as an alternative to visiting. Individuals and leaders should take appropriate safety precautions, and in bad conditions be prepared to cancell part or all of the field trip if necessary. Permission should be sought for entry into private land and no damage should take place. Attention should be paid to weather warnings, local warnings and danger signs. No liability for death, injury, damage to, or loss of property in connection with a field trip is accepted by providing these websites of geological information. Discussion of geological and geomorphological features, coast erosion, coastal retreat, storm surges etc are given here for academic and educational purposes only. They are not intended for assessment of risk to property or to life. No liability is accepted if this website is used beyond its academic purposes, particularly with regard to matters of risk to life or property. </BODY> </HTML>