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Lulworth Cove: Case Study

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Lulworth Cove

Location: Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England.
Rock Type: Limestone, clay, sandstone and chalk
What has happened: the hard rocks at the front of the cove have eroded much more slowly than the rocks behind giving the cove its horseshoe shape.
Geology-
Hard Portland and Purbeck Stone forms the cliffs with much softer Wealdon Clay, Gault and Greensand behind with the chalk forming the back of the cove.
Various rock sequences-
Portland Stone - limestone that formed at the end of the Jurassic coast in the warm shallow water very much like the Bahamas did.
Purbeck Stone - A series of thin layers of limestone and clay that formed in swamps.

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