- the past
including amongst others the
Purbeck Beds,
Purbeck Formation,
Purbeck Limestone Formation and
Purbeck Stone.
Rocks of this age have in the past...
- of Jur****ic rocks,
including Portland limestone and the
Purbeck beds. The
latter include Purbeck Marble, a
particularly hard
limestone that can be polished...
-
county are the
Purbeck Beds or more
formally the
Purbeck Group,
which are of Late Jur****ic to
Early Cretaceous age. The
Purbeck Beds outcrop at three...
- stone.
Stratigraphically these limestone beds lie
towards the top of the
Durlston Formation of the
Purbeck Group. They were
deposited during the Berriasian...
-
found in the
Middle Purbeck Beds, an
informal unit of the
modern Purbeck Limestone Group, the
formal name for the
historic Purbeck Beds.
British palaeontologist...
-
Purbeck stone refers to
building stone taken from a
series of
limestone beds found in the
Upper Jur****ic to
Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Group,
found on the...
-
rocks exposed at the
centre of the
anticline are
correlated with the
Purbeck Beds of the
Upper Jur****ic.
Above these, the
Cretaceous rocks,
include the...
-
Frances Coke,
Viscountess Purbeck (August 1602 – 4 June 1645), was the sister-in-law of
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the
central figure...
-
exposing the
underlying Wealden Beds. The
oldest rocks thus
brought to
light along the
crest of the
anticline are the
Purbeck Beds,
small patches of
shale and...
-
Deposited in an oxygen-deficient environment, the
Kimmeridge beds make up the
major part of the
Purbeck Monocline and the
periphery of the
Weymouth Anticline...
