The Portland Stone contains chert beds with sponge spicules, giant ammonites, serpulid worm tubes and shell-sand limestones, the quarried beds, with rich bivalve assemblages and the giant ammonite Titanites anguiformis. They are very well-known to rock climbers. The cliffs are superb for geologists and also for walkers. It provides excellent exposures of the Portland Stone and the basal Purbeck Formation. It has long been quarried at Tilly Whim Caves, Dancing Ledge, Seacombe and Winspit. Please note that at present there is periodic updating of the live version.)Īnvil Point is in the eastern part of a dramatic stretch of the Portland limestone coastline of the Isle of Purbeck, stretching from Durlston Head to St. (You can download this educational website to offline downloading software keep a safe permanent copy it is intended to run it from the present server but this is not necessarly guaranteed. Tilly Whim Caves section in the Durlston Head Webpage. Aldhelm's Hd to Anvil Point - Geological Bibliographyįor TILLY WHIM CAVES immediately to the east, go to: | Anvil Point to Blackers Hole, Isle of Purbeck (this webpage) | Dancing Ledge and adjacent cliffs, Isle of Purbeck Webpage hosted by courtesy of iSolutions, Southampton UniversityĪerial photographs by courtesy of The Channel Coastal Observatory, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

Version: 10th April 2014.įaculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Internet site: Southampton University, UK. Anvil Point to Fisherman's Ledge to Blackers Hole Cave, Isle of Purbeck, near Swanage - Geology of the Wessex Coast (including the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Coast - Jurassic Coast). Anvil Point to Blackers Hole, Dorset - Geology by Ian West.

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