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The Tectonics of the Purbeck and Ridgeway Faults in Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. J. Arkell
W. J. Arkell
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University Museum, Oxford.
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The Ridgeway Fault may begin along the north margin of the Chaldon Anticline as mapped by Bristow (1855), but its existence there was doubted by Strahan. From the “bridge” at Holworth it certainly continues along the north margin of the Poxwell-Sutton Poyntz Anticline to Greenhill. Here it turns a double corner, the exact nature of which is problematical, and runs thence obliquely across and later along and parallel to the north limb of the Upwey Syncline to a point ½ mile west of Portisham, where it dies out in Kimeridge Clay. The total length from near Chaldon is 13 miles.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , March 1936 , pp. 97 - 118
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1936

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