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A note on the Birchi Beds, Lower Jurassic, at Lyme Regis, Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. P. Palmer
C. P. Palmer
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD
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Abstract

The chronic repetition of a small graphical error, initiated by H. B. Woodward and depicting the Birchi Beds (Lower Jurassic) dipping beneath Lyme Regis, needs rectifying since, by implication, it leads to a gross stratigraphical and structural error amounting to about 21 m (70 ft) at Lyme Regis, Dorset.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 121 , Issue 6 , November 1984 , pp. 645 - 647
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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