Ian West,

Romsey, Hampshire
and Visiting Scientist at:
School of Ocean and Earth Science ,
Southampton University,

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Aerial photographs by courtesy of The Channel Coastal Observatory , National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am very grateful to Alan Holiday who first informed me about this mudslide and kindly took photographs. I very much appreciate the further photographs of the mudslide, including one from the sea taken by Martin Cox. I thank various people who have been in the field with me at this locality.

REFERENCES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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British Geological Survey (BGS). (Compiler Wood, M.A.) 2011. Geology of South Dorset and South-East Devon and its World Heritage Coast.

Special Memoir for 1:50,000 geological sheets 328 Dorchester, 342 West Fleet and Weymouth and 342/343 Swanage and parts of sheets 326/340 Sidmouth, 327 Bridport, 329 Bournemouth and 330 Newton Abbott. Compiled by M.A. Woods. By Barton, C.M., Woods, M.A., Bristow, C.R., Newell, A.J., Westhead, R.K., Evans, D.J., Kirby G.A., and Warrington, G. Contributors: Biostratigraphy - J.B. Riding; Stratigraphy - E.C. Freshney; Economic Geology - D.E. Highley and G.K. Lott; Engineering Geology - A. Forster and A. Gibson. British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, 2011. 161 pp. This is the new version of the Geological Survey Memoir for the Dorset Coast etc. and replaces Arkell (1947) and the earlier memoir by Strahan (1898). It covers a wider area than these old memoirs, though, and includes all of "Jurassic Coast", UNESCO World Heritage Coast. It is a key reference work. Available from BGS Online Bookshop at 24 pounds stirling (in Jan. 2012).
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Day , E.C.H. 1863. On the Middle and Upper Lias of the Dorset coast. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, 19, 278-297.
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Howarth , M.K. 1957. On the Middle Lias of the Dorset coast. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, 113, 185-204.
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Palmer , C.P. 1972. Revision of the zonal classification of the Lower Lias of the Dorset coast. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 93, 102-116.

Palmer, C.P. 1966. The fauna of Day's Shell Bed in the Middle Lias of the Dorset coast. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 87, 69-80.

Palmer, C.P. 2003. Carinopsis batei: a new bivalve mollusc from the Middle Lias (Lower Jurassic) of the Dorset coast, England. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 125, 119-123. By Charles Philip Palmer of the Natural History Museum, London. Summary: A new genus of heterodont bivalve mollusc is described and named Carinopsis. It is assigned to geographical, and exact stratigraphical positions; and classified in the subfamily Opinae, pending better preserved material. Biographical conclusions are drawn. [A small, unusual, heterodont mollusc from Day's Shell Bed about 0.9m below the Starfish Bed of Eype Mouth and Seatown.]
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Wilson, V. , Welch, F.B.A., Robbie, J.A. and Green, G.W. 1958. Geology of the Country Around Bridport and Yeovil (Explanations of Sheets 327 and 312). 239pp. With contributions on The Purbeck Beds by F.W. Anderson, D.Sc.; Palaeontology by R.V. Melville, M.Sc.; and Ground Water by S. Buchan, B.Sc., Ph.D. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London. [The map and area considered has an eastern limit about 3 miles west of Dorchester, and a western limit at Charmouth. It does not quite include Lyme Regis.]

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Webpage - written and produced by:

Ian West, M.Sc. Ph.D. F.G.S.

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at his private address, Romsey, Hampshire, kindly supported by Southampton University,and web-hosted by courtesy of iSolutions of Southampton University. The website does not necessarily represent the views of Southampton University. The website is written privately from home in Romsey, unfunded and with no staff other than the author, but generously and freely published by Southampton University. Field trips shown in photographs do not necessarily have any connection with Southampton University and may have been private or have been run by various organisations.

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