Durlston Bay

Durlston Bay (also known as Durdlestone Bay)^[1] is a small bay next to a country park of the same name, just south of the resort of Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It has been a renowned site for Lower Cretaceous fossils since the initial discovery of fragments there by Samuel Beckles in the 1850s.^[2]

References

^ "Feather Quarry, Durlston Bay (DB102)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
^ Durlston Bay page on the Jurassic Coast website Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Durlston Bay; Introduction and Upper Purbeck: Geology of the Wessex Coast by I. M. West, 2005.

50°36′04″N 1°56′55″W / 50.60111°N 1.94861°W / 50.60111; -1.94861

Jurassic Coast

East Devon

Orcombe Point
Sandy Bay
Straight Point
Otter Cove
Budleigh Salterton
Danger Point
Ladram Bay
High Peak
Sidmouth
Salcombe Hill
Weston Mouth
Branscombe
Beer Head
Beer Quarry Caves
Beer
Seaton
Pinhay Bay
Monmouth Beach
Ware Cliffs

West Dorset

Chesil Beach	West Bay Burton Bradstock West Bexington Abbotsbury Gore Cove Chickerell
Isle of Portland	Chesil Cove Tar Rocks Clay Ope Hallelujah Bay Blacknor Mutton Cove Wallsend Cove Pulpit Rock Portland Bill Portland Raised Beach Cave Hole Church Ope Cove Portland Museum Jurassica Durdle Pier King's Pier Folly Pier Salt Pans Freshwater Bay Balaclava Bay Portland Harbour
Weymouth	Newton's Cove Nothe Gardens Weymouth Harbour Weymouth Pier Jurassic Skyline Weymouth Beach Weymouth Bay Greenhill

Isle of Purbeck	Flower's Barrow Cow Corner Worbarrow Bay Worbarrow Tout Pondfield Cove Gad Cliff Tyneham Brandy Bay Hobarrow Bay Kimmeridge Kimmeridge Oil Field Kimmeridge Bay Hen Cliff Kimmeridge Ledges The Etches Collection Rope Lake Head Swyre Head Egmont Bight Egmont Point Chapman's Pool St Alban's Head West Man Winspit East Man Worth Matravers Dancing Ledge Anvil Point Tilly Whim Caves Durlston Bay Peveril Point Swanage Ballard Point The Pinnacles Parson's Barn Old Harry Rocks

Isle of Purbeck