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The Origin of Lulworth Cove, Dorsetshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. St. John Burton
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The well known Lulworth Cove, situated on the Dorsetshire coast between Mupe Bay, on the east, and Dungy Head, on the west, is generally considered to be a very good example of the result of marine erosion acting upon rocks of unequal resistance, and such indeed it is.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 74 , Issue 8 , August 1937 , pp. 377 - 383
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1937

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