Dorset Coast Postcard
Old Harry Rocks Postcard 1Old Harry Rocks are chalk stacks located directly east of Studland and to the north of Swanage in Dorset. The rocks are part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site of which they form the eastern end. It is also believed that the rocks were once connected to The Needles on the Isle of Wight.
Old Harry Rocks Postcard 2The cliff is chalk, with some bands of flint, which have been gradually reduced over the centuries, some of the earlier stacks having fallen (old Harry's original wife fell in 1896), while new ones have been formed by the breaching of narrow isthmuses.
Durdle Door Postcard 1Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. The arch has formed on a concordant coastline where bands of rock run parallel to the shoreline. Here the rock strata are nearly vertical, and the bands of rock are quite narrow.
Durdle Door Postcard 2The 400-foot (120 m) isthmus which joins the limestone to the chalk is made of a 50-metre (160 ft) band of Portland limestone, which is less resistant than the Purbeck beds, a narrow and compressed band of Cretaceous clays—Wealden Clay, sands and chert beds—and then narrow bands of Greensand and sandstone.
Lulworth Cove PostcardLulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The cove has formed because there are bands of rock of alternating resistance running parallel to the shore (a concordant coastline). The entrance to the cove is a narrow gap in the limestone bands.
Man O'War Rock Postcard
Me and the Dorset Coast
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