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Small gallery in Bridport Museum containing displays of high quality local fossils
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This flat surface is a bedding plain within the Inferior Oolite in Dorset that was exposed by quarrying. The surface was created by erosion during the deposition of the rock 180 million years ago when a semi-hardened bed containing fossils was striopped back before the next layer of limestone was deposited. Some of the...
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the abandoned Kingbarrow quarry on Portland is managed as a nature reserve by Dorset Wildlife Trust. This bench in the south west corner of the quarry has several nice examples of algal burrs from the layer a tthe base of the Purbeck Beds known as the Fossil Forest. Each of these structures would have formed arround th...
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this is a small outcrop of Upper Greensand that forms part of a land slipped block. It includes chert beds and a good exposure of Eggardon Grit.
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The RIGS at Red Lane in Abbotsbury is old quarry in the Iron Stone that is unique to the area and forms the very base of the Kimmeridge Clay. For more information visit www.dorsetrigs.org.uk
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A disused quarry at Abbotsbury, Dorset showing an exposure of Corallian Osmington Oolite
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