FORMATION End of section

MEMBER Higher Chalk Member Lower Chalk Member

THICKNESSES Sequence continues upwards. 256.0m 30.0m min

Mean: 279.08m Exposed:

251.51m

DESCRIPTION Drift above

COMMENT Mid Lulworth Cove

Sum totals: White Lulworth Formation 30m min

275.0m 50.0m

201.54m 59.08m

251.59m 41.38m

289.0m 51.0m

272.17m 44.0m

245.01m 51.0m

206.04m 45.0m

267.28 52.0m

BGF to WLF 4m transition Bottle Green Formation 35m total TOP LGCF 12m total LGCF Lulworth Grey Clay Formation TOP of LRF 148.5m total LRF? LRF LRF

Transitional Sand Member Glauconite Sand Member Green Clay Member Transitional Clay Blue Grey Clay Member Uppermost Clay Member Polymict Grit Member Pebble Member

4.0m

4.0m

4.0m

4.0m

4.0m

3.04.0m 35.0m

4.0m transition 7.0m transition 4.0m 35.0m 39.0m

Fossiliferous chalk. Disturbed layers, nodular bioturbated hard grounds Transition green to white

Microfossils and macrofossils common Bivalves Transition zone

35.0m

38.0m

36.0m

35.0m

35.0m

5.0m 4.0m 3.0m

4.0m 8.0m 3.0m

4.0m 4.0m 10.0m

4.0m 4.0m 8.0m 4.0m 12.0m 4.0m 12.0m

6.0m 4.0m 12.0m 16.0m

12.0m 8.0m

5.0m

35.0m

7.0m

5.0m

50.0m

45.m

50.0m

5.0m

49.0m

Green glauconitic coarse sand and clay, bioturbated Green sand with clay within, matrix Transition from grey to green clay Blue grey clay, some orange colour within clay Red terracotta and green clays, little yellow sand No exposure Coarse quartz grit, yellow and orange Conglomerate, pebble, rounded clasts, sulphur, grit lenses, channel thalweg structure Sand with iron nodules No exposure Coarse grained grit and sand with pebbles. Green clay and fine yellow sand, thin cm upward fining channelet sequences Coal rafts in grit Cross bed, thin seams of coal that line xb. Stromatolites line channelets Coarse grained sand, green and orange a very different lithology, layers of organic material, channelet structures Green clay No exposure

Marine clay

Siltstone? Transition zone Black organics, anoxia? malleable clay

45.0m 5.0m 10.0m

7.0m 8.0m 5.0m

5.0m 7.0m 5.0m 7.0m

5.0m 7.0m

7.0m 8.0m

5.0m 8.0m 8.0m

Terrestrial deltaic Red clay at base

LRF LRF? LRF

Iron Member Grit with Coal Member

5.0m 12.0m 5.0m

12.0m 15.0m

5.0m 12.0m

5.0m 12.0m

3.0m 5.0m 9.0m

8.0m 12.0m

5.0m 5.0m

12.0m 10.0m

8.0m 12.0m

Fluvio deltaic and Lacustrine

LRF LRF

Thin Coals Member

3.0m 5.0m 3.0m

3.0m 3.0m

5.0m 3.0m

8.0m

8.0m 3.0m

2.0m 3.0m

Fucoid?

LRF

Upper Colourful Sand Member

2.0m

2.0m

7.0m 3.0m

7.0m

7.0m

15.0m

11.0m

13.5m

Small channel sequence Transition zone

LRF LRF? LRF LRF? LRF

Green Clay Member

2.5m 0.5m 9.5m 0.8m

11.0m

4.0m (5.6m total thick)

3.0m

3.0m

3.5m 10.3m

2.0m

Lacustrine and low energy Modern brick pit Palaeo-land surface

0.5m 9.5m 1.0m

10.0m 0.2m 2.0m

9.5m 5.0m

Lower Colourful Sand Member Clay and Sand Member

0.2m

No exposure NEPTUNIAN DYKE Orange red and yellow bands. Fine grained sand, cross bedded

LRF

2.0m

7.0m

2.0m

2.0m

2.0m

4.0m

5.0m LRF? LRF LRF LRF Orange Clay Member Terracotta Clay Member 5.0m 4.0m

6.0m

5.0m

5.0m

7.0m

8.0m 5.0m

Clay gives way to sand, much sandier, brightly coloured SLUMP, Recent No exposure Bright orange and terracotta red clay Fine grained terracotta and brick red clay STRUCTURE, shear and extensional No exposure Fine grained sand, orange and yellow

Sand body progrades into lake

Sub-tropical clay

8.0m

4.0m

4.0m

4.0m

4.0m

4.0m

4.0m

and soil?

LRF? LRF? Lulworth Rainbow Formation BASE 9.5m 9.5m 8.0m 0.4m 20.4m base 8.0m 8.0m 8.0m 8.0m 8.0m

Basal Colourful Sand Member

1.0m

Lacustrine

JKb? Or LRF? JKb

15.6m

20.4m 15.6m 3.0m

15.6m

15.6m

20.0m 23.0m

15.6m

15.6m

15.6m

Condensed

3.0m

3.0m

3.0m

3.0m

1.0m

3.56m

JKb JKb? Jurassic TOP ELCF 26.57m total

STRUCTURE, recumbent fold tectonic. Recent mudslide Beef calcite, orange and yellow minerals, shale, sulphur, delicate xtals Acicular crystals Mg? Boundary Chert nodules, shale varying in thickness. Mussels, laminated micrite, skeletal packstone and stromatolites SLIP RECENT STRUCTURE Bivalve packstone Clay and shale Limestone rich with shale, hummocky beds, ripple marks symmetric ARBITRARY BASE

No exposure 20.4

Volcanic? Reducing Eh?

Cretaceous East Lulworth Cove Junction Member

J-K 7.5m

J-K 7.31m

J-K

J-K 7.5m

J-K

J-K 7m7.5m

J-K 7.5m

J-K 7.0m

J-K 7.1m

Erosion Disconformity Marginal marine transitional facies

ELCF? ELCF ELCF East Lulworth Cove Formation Start of section Mussel bed Member Claystone Member Hummocky bed Member Zero
th

12.0m 0.81m 1.51m 4.75m

13m Minor 0.81 4.83m

13m

12.05m 0.81m

12.0m 1.2m

12.0m 0.81m 1.51m

11.8m 0.81m 1.5m 4.8m

13.0m 0.81m 0.5m 3.63m

11.2m 0.81m 0.51m 4.6m

15-20% exposure

1.51m 4.75m

1.51m 4.75m 4.8m

4.75m

Shallow water wave dominated marine East headland of Lulworth Cove

Zero

Zero

Zero

Zero

Zero

Zero

Zero

Zero

Section measured, 17 March 2011, Lulworth Cove Dorset.