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    Lulworth Cove Stratigraphy Dorset 2011

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    This document contains geological measurements and descriptions of rock formations in Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England. It describes the thicknesses of various rock members within multiple formations, ranging from 0.2 meters to 279.08 meters thick. The formations include the White Lulworth Formation, Bottle Green Formation, Lulworth Grey Clay Formation, Lulworth Rainbow Formation, and East Lulworth Cove Formation. Descriptions of the rock types are provided, including chalk, clay, sand, grit, and limestone.

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    This document contains geological measurements and descriptions of rock formations in Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England. It describes the thicknesses of various rock members within multiple formations, ranging from 0.2 meters to 279.08 meters thick. The formations include the White Lulworth Formation, Bottle Green Formation, Lulworth Grey Clay Formation, Lulworth Rainbow Formation, and East Lulworth Cove Formation. Descriptions of the rock types are provided, including chalk, clay, sand, grit, and limestone.

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    A practical exercise in lithostratigraphic logging. Marios Miliorizos.

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    This document contains geological measurements and descriptions of rock formations in Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England. It describes the thicknesses of various rock members within multiple formations, ranging from 0.2 meters to 279.08 meters thick. The formations include the White Lulworth Formation, Bottle Green Formation, Lulworth Grey Clay Formation, Lulworth Rainbow Formation, and East Lulworth Cove Formation. Descriptions of the rock types are provided, including chalk, clay, sand, grit, and limestone.

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    This document contains geological measurements and descriptions of rock formations in Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England. It describes the thicknesses of various rock members within multiple formations, ranging from 0.2 meters to 279.08 meters thick. The formations include the White Lulworth Formation, Bottle Green Formation, Lulworth Grey Clay Formation, Lulworth Rainbow Formation, and East Lulworth Cove Formation. Descriptions of the rock types are provided, including chalk, clay, sand, grit, and limestone.

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    FORMATION End of section

    MEMBER Higher Chalk Member Lower Chalk Member

    THICKNESSES Sequence continues upwards. 256.0m 30.0m min

    Mean: 279.08m Exposed:

    251.51m

    DESCRIPTION Drift above

    COMMENT Mid Lulworth Cove

    Sum totals: White Lulworth Formation 30m min

    275.0m 50.0m

    201.54m 59.08m

    251.59m 41.38m

    289.0m 51.0m

    272.17m 44.0m

    245.01m 51.0m

    206.04m 45.0m

    267.28 52.0m

    BGF to WLF 4m transition Bottle Green Formation 35m total TOP LGCF 12m total LGCF Lulworth Grey Clay Formation TOP of LRF 148.5m total LRF? LRF LRF

    Transitional Sand Member Glauconite Sand Member Green Clay Member Transitional Clay Blue Grey Clay Member Uppermost Clay Member Polymict Grit Member Pebble Member

    4.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    3.04.0m 35.0m

    4.0m transition 7.0m transition 4.0m 35.0m 39.0m

    Fossiliferous chalk. Disturbed layers, nodular bioturbated hard grounds Transition green to white

    Microfossils and macrofossils common Bivalves Transition zone

    35.0m

    38.0m

    36.0m

    35.0m

    35.0m

    5.0m 4.0m 3.0m

    4.0m 8.0m 3.0m

    4.0m 4.0m 10.0m

    4.0m 4.0m 8.0m 4.0m 12.0m 4.0m 12.0m

    6.0m 4.0m 12.0m 16.0m

    12.0m 8.0m

    5.0m

    35.0m

    7.0m

    5.0m

    50.0m

    45.m

    50.0m

    5.0m

    49.0m

    Green glauconitic coarse sand and clay, bioturbated Green sand with clay within, matrix Transition from grey to green clay Blue grey clay, some orange colour within clay Red terracotta and green clays, little yellow sand No exposure Coarse quartz grit, yellow and orange Conglomerate, pebble, rounded clasts, sulphur, grit lenses, channel thalweg structure Sand with iron nodules No exposure Coarse grained grit and sand with pebbles. Green clay and fine yellow sand, thin cm upward fining channelet sequences Coal rafts in grit Cross bed, thin seams of coal that line xb. Stromatolites line channelets Coarse grained sand, green and orange a very different lithology, layers of organic material, channelet structures Green clay No exposure

    Marine clay

    Siltstone? Transition zone Black organics, anoxia? malleable clay

    45.0m 5.0m 10.0m

    7.0m 8.0m 5.0m

    5.0m 7.0m 5.0m 7.0m

    5.0m 7.0m

    7.0m 8.0m

    5.0m 8.0m 8.0m

    Terrestrial deltaic Red clay at base

    LRF LRF? LRF

    Iron Member Grit with Coal Member

    5.0m 12.0m 5.0m

    12.0m 15.0m

    5.0m 12.0m

    5.0m 12.0m

    3.0m 5.0m 9.0m

    8.0m 12.0m

    5.0m 5.0m

    12.0m 10.0m

    8.0m 12.0m

    Fluvio deltaic and Lacustrine

    LRF LRF

    Thin Coals Member

    3.0m 5.0m 3.0m

    3.0m 3.0m

    5.0m 3.0m

    8.0m

    8.0m 3.0m

    2.0m 3.0m

    Fucoid?

    LRF

    Upper Colourful Sand Member

    2.0m

    2.0m

    7.0m 3.0m

    7.0m

    7.0m

    15.0m

    11.0m

    13.5m

    Small channel sequence Transition zone

    LRF LRF? LRF LRF? LRF

    Green Clay Member

    2.5m 0.5m 9.5m 0.8m

    11.0m

    4.0m (5.6m total thick)

    3.0m

    3.0m

    3.5m 10.3m

    2.0m

    Lacustrine and low energy Modern brick pit Palaeo-land surface

    0.5m 9.5m 1.0m

    10.0m 0.2m 2.0m

    9.5m 5.0m

    Lower Colourful Sand Member Clay and Sand Member

    0.2m

    No exposure NEPTUNIAN DYKE Orange red and yellow bands. Fine grained sand, cross bedded

    LRF

    2.0m

    7.0m

    2.0m

    2.0m

    2.0m

    4.0m

    5.0m LRF? LRF LRF LRF Orange Clay Member Terracotta Clay Member 5.0m 4.0m

    6.0m

    5.0m

    5.0m

    7.0m

    8.0m 5.0m

    Clay gives way to sand, much sandier, brightly coloured SLUMP, Recent No exposure Bright orange and terracotta red clay Fine grained terracotta and brick red clay STRUCTURE, shear and extensional No exposure Fine grained sand, orange and yellow

    Sand body progrades into lake

    Sub-tropical clay

    8.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    4.0m

    and soil?

    LRF? LRF? Lulworth Rainbow Formation BASE 9.5m 9.5m 8.0m 0.4m 20.4m base 8.0m 8.0m 8.0m 8.0m 8.0m

    Basal Colourful Sand Member

    1.0m

    Lacustrine

    JKb? Or LRF? JKb

    15.6m

    20.4m 15.6m 3.0m

    15.6m

    15.6m

    20.0m 23.0m

    15.6m

    15.6m

    15.6m

    Condensed

    3.0m

    3.0m

    3.0m

    3.0m

    1.0m

    3.56m

    JKb JKb? Jurassic TOP ELCF 26.57m total

    STRUCTURE, recumbent fold tectonic. Recent mudslide Beef calcite, orange and yellow minerals, shale, sulphur, delicate xtals Acicular crystals Mg? Boundary Chert nodules, shale varying in thickness. Mussels, laminated micrite, skeletal packstone and stromatolites SLIP RECENT STRUCTURE Bivalve packstone Clay and shale Limestone rich with shale, hummocky beds, ripple marks symmetric ARBITRARY BASE

    No exposure 20.4

    Volcanic? Reducing Eh?

    Cretaceous East Lulworth Cove Junction Member

    J-K 7.5m

    J-K 7.31m

    J-K

    J-K 7.5m

    J-K

    J-K 7m7.5m

    J-K 7.5m

    J-K 7.0m

    J-K 7.1m

    Erosion Disconformity Marginal marine transitional facies

    ELCF? ELCF ELCF East Lulworth Cove Formation Start of section Mussel bed Member Claystone Member Hummocky bed Member Zero
    th

    12.0m 0.81m 1.51m 4.75m

    13m Minor 0.81 4.83m

    13m

    12.05m 0.81m

    12.0m 1.2m

    12.0m 0.81m 1.51m

    11.8m 0.81m 1.5m 4.8m

    13.0m 0.81m 0.5m 3.63m

    11.2m 0.81m 0.51m 4.6m

    15-20% exposure

    1.51m 4.75m

    1.51m 4.75m 4.8m

    4.75m

    Shallow water wave dominated marine East headland of Lulworth Cove

    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    Zero

    Section measured, 17 March 2011, Lulworth Cove Dorset.

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