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U-Shaped Burrows in the Corallian Beds of Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. J. Arkell
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Plates VII and VIII show four photographs of U-shaped markings in fallen blocks on the foreshore at Kedcliff, between Redcliff Point and Bowleaze Cove, near Weymouth. They were first noticed by members of the Sedgwick Club during an excursion in March, 1939, and further examination has revealed abundant markings which show interesting features worth putting on record. They do not seem to have been previously recorded from the Corallian Beds, perhaps owing to the abundance of “fucoid” and other strange markings in all the sandstones and oolites of the formation. The examples here illustrated occur in the hard doggers of finegrained calcareous sandstone in the Bencliff Grit, and some occur also on the same horizon between Bran Point and Osmingtoh Mills, two miles to the east.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 76 , Issue 10 , October 1939 , pp. 455 - 458
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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