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III.—The Origin of the Vale of Marshwood in West Dorset1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. J. Jukes-Browne
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The great sheet of Chalk which, with the subjacent Greensand and Gault, stretches through so large a part of Southern England and underlies the whole of the Hampshire Basin, terminates abruptly in West Dorset. There is no doubt that the Upper Cretaceous rocks once spread continuously over the Jurassic hills east of Bridport and across the Vale of Marshwood, and were united to the corresponding beds in East Devon, where the Chalk and Greensand are so conspicuous in the cliffs near Beer Head.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , April 1898 , pp. 161 - 168
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1898

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Footnotes

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This paper is reprinted, with some alterations, from the Proceedings of the Dorset Nat. Hist, and Ant. Field Club, vol. xviii, and is published with the permission of the Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

References

page 165 note 1 See “Origin of the Valleys of North Dorset,” in Proc. Dorset T.H. and A.F. Club, vol. xvi, p. 5.

page 167 note 1 For a case in Lincolnshire described by the author, see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxix, p. 596, 1883.Google Scholar