Durlston Bay

Summary

Durlston Bay (also known as Durdlestone Bay)[1] is a small bay next to a country park of the same name, just south of the resort of Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It has been a renowned site for Lower Cretaceous fossils since the initial discovery of fragments there by Samuel Beckles in the 1850s.[2]

Durlston Bay from Durlston Head

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Feather Quarry, Durlston Bay (DB102)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  2. ^ Durlston Bay page on the Jurassic Coast website Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine

External links edit

  • Durlston Bay; Introduction and Upper Purbeck: Geology of the Wessex Coast by I. M. West, 2005.

50°36′04″N 1°56′55″W / 50.60111°N 1.94861°W / 50.60111; -1.94861