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	EZGeography - Dorset
		Dorset's high chalk hills have provided a location for defensive settlements for millennia, with neolithic and bronze age burial mounds on almost every chalk hill in the county, and a number of iron age hill forts.
		In the 12th century civil war Dorset was fortified with the construction of the defensive castles at Corfe Castle, Powerstock, Wareham and Shaftesbury, and the strengthening of the monasteries such as at Abbotsbury.
		Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy.
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Dorset (2043 words)

	Geology - WebArticles.com
		Geology (from Greek Î³Î·- (ge-, "the earth") and Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Ï (logos, "word", "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it.
		Geologists have helped establish the age of the Earth at about 4.5 billion (4.5x109) years, and have determined that the Earth's lithosphere, which includes the crust, is fragmented into tectonic plates that move over a rheic upper mantle (asthenosphere) via processes that are collectively referred to as plate tectonics.
		The principle becomes quite complex, however, given the uncertainties of fossilization, the localization of fossil types due to lateral changes in habitat (facies change in sedimentary strata), and that not all fossils may be found globally at the same time.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=407 (1459 words)

	ENGLISH NATURE - Special Sites
		Its varied geology, spans the last 200 million years, and is dominated by sedimentary rocks deposited in a range of marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments.
		In the east of the County, between the Dorset Downs and the narrow chalk ridge of the Purbeck Hills lie the Dorset Heaths and coniferous forests of the Wareham area.
		In West Dorset, the lower part of the cliff sections are composed of Jurassic clays and limestones, while the tops of the cliffs at Black Ven, Stonebarrow and Golden Cap are capped by Upper Greensand of Cretaceous age.
	www.english-nature.org.uk /special/geological/sites/area_ID9.asp (2876 words)

	Oil South UK, Select Bibliography of Petroleum Geology of Southern England
		This is a brief summary of literature on petroleum geology in relation to the Dorset coast, Wytch Farm, Wessex Basin and southern England in general and adjacent English Channel.
		Abstract: An analysis of the surface geology and of surface and subsurface petroleum occurrences is used to unravel the complex history of the generation, migration and entrapment of oil in south Dorset.
		Colter, V.S. and Havard, D.J. The Wytch Farm oilfield, Dorset.
	www.soton.ac.uk /~imw/oilsot.htm (5536 words)

	Geology of Dorset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dorset is particularly noted for its coastline, the Jurassic Coast, which in 2001 was designated a World Heritage Site because of the variety of landforms and fossils exhibited along the coast.
		Dorset Heath, a species of the genus Erica, grows in this area, and in 2002 was chosen as a symbol of the county by Plantlife's "county flower" competition.
		Dorset's coastline is one of the most visited and studied coastlines in the world because it shows, along the course of 95 miles (including some of east Devon) rocks from the beginning of Triassic, through the Jurassic and up to the end of the Cretaceous, documenting the entire Mesozoic era with well preserved fossils.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geology_of_Dorset (929 words)

	The Economic Geology of Dorset
		General view of the agriculture in the County of Dorset, with observations on the means of its improvement.
		Damon, R. Geology of Weymouth and the Island of Portland with notes on the Natural History of the Coast and Neighbourhood.
		‘On the geology of the neighbourhood of Weymouth and the adjacent parts of the coast of Dorset’.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /jgplants/dorset.htm (1345 words)

	Dorset Walking
		Dorset is one of the most beautiful and unspoilt counties in England, and we have one of the most extensive populations of wildlife of any county.
		We have walked in the beautiful Dorset countryside for over 20 years, and for a number of years I have kept photographic records of these walks, as well as recording the wildlife we have come across.
		Dorset covers an area of 980 square miles, 53% of which is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
	www.dorsetwalking.co.uk (333 words)

	An overview of the Jurassic Cliffs in Dorset
		Cretaceous fossils, is along the continually collapsing cliff faces of the west Dorset coastline in and around the Charmouth area, (the Latitude is approx 50 degrees 44 minutes North and the Longitude is approx 2 degrees 54 minutes West).
		The Dorset cliffs form part of the Lower Jurassic (or Lias) which comprise predominantly of clays, thin limestone's and siltstones.
		The result is a belt of rocks of Jurassic age that stretch across England from Dorset in the southwest to Yorkshire in the northeast.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~gcaselton/fossil/fos-txt.html (2561 words)

	Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Dorset's high chalk hills have provided a location for defensive settlements for millenia, with neolithic and bronze age burial mounds on almost every chalk hill in the county, and a number of iron age hill forts.
		Dorset has many notable Roman artefacts, particularly around the Roman town Dorchester, where Maiden Castle was taken early in the Roman occupation.
		A number of military events took place in Dorset in the 12th century civil war, and this gave rise to the defensive castles at Corfe Castle, Powerstock, Wareham and Shaftesbury.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/dorset (1847 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Dorset and East Devon Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The coasts of Dorset and Devon are very well visited, with total annual visited estimated to be in excess of 14 million within the nominated site and the adjacent coastal areas as a whole.
		Dorset and Devon Wildlife Trusts own wildlife reserves at Weston Mouth and the Otter Estuary (Devon) and at West Bexington and Kimmeridge (Dorset) all have management plans.
		Calloman, J.H. and Cope J.C.W. The Jurassic Geology of Dorset.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/dorset.html (4808 words)

	This is Dorset \| CommuniGate \| Dorset Geology
		The Dorset Geologists' Association Group is an enthusiastic group of all levels of expertise from absolute beginners to full blown profs.
		Their common interest is geology, and while members travel the globe looking at rocks, their chief interest is the geology of Dorset.
		We produced a book of geological walks to celebrate our 10 years of existence to 2003 which has 28 walks from 17 authors, mostly coastal and inland Dorset and a few from the surrounding counties.
	www.communigate.co.uk /dorset/heldon47/index.phtml (179 words)

	Geology Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The word "geology" was first used by Jean-Andr?eluc in the year 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-B?dict de Saussure in the year 1779.
		* Elba Island Geology Geology at Elba Island, in Italy, with advanced chemical table of various minerals.
		October 2007 SW China Karst geology, hydrology, and cultural tour.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Geology (1756 words)

	Vermont Geological Survey home page
		Land use planning, resource evaluation, groundwater issues, and geologic hazards all require comprehensive understanding of geology and the system based on the relationships between surficial and bedrock geology.
		We will be mapping in Williston (surficial geology and water resources), Stowe (bedrock geology and arsenic), and Dorset (surficial geology and water resources) during the summer of 2006.
		2) Bedrock and 3) surficial geology of the southern Worcester Mountains Watersheds in the towns of Middlesex, Waterbury and Stowe.
	www.anr.state.vt.us /dec/geo/current.htm (394 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Thure Cerling (pictured) distinguished professor of biology and geology and physics and Ben Passey a biology Phd student at the University of Utah use lasers to remove tooth enamel from ancient primates to tell what their diet was like.
		Some geography, we have a year and a half and other geology, we have three months.
		Geology (from Greek andgamma;andeta;- (ge-, "the earth") and andlambda;andomicron;andgamma;andomicron;andsigmaf; (logos, "word", "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/geology (2486 words)

	Geology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The principle of intrusive relationships concerns crosscutting intrusions.
		Glacial geology of the Genesee River (New York, Pennsylvania)
		This page was last modified 23:30, 24 November 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geology (1631 words)

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		Calloman, J. and Cope, J. W., 1995, The Jurassic geology of Dorset, in Taylor, P. D., ed., Field Geology of the British Jurassic: Bath, United Kingdom, Geological Society Publishing House, p.
		Damon, R., 1884, Geology of Weymouth, Portland, and the Coast of Dorset from Swanage to Bridport-on-the-sea: With Natural History and Archaeological Notes (second edition): London, Edward Stanford, 250 p.
		Strachan, A., 1898, The geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales: London, Wyman, 278 p.
	www.wooster.edu /geology/geois/References.doc (1531 words)

	Images of Dorset: Geological Map
		The nature of the Dorset landscape is heavily influenced by the underlying geology; in the east of the county where the rocks are soft the landscape is gentle and rolling, whereas in the west – where they are harder and hence more able to withstand erosion – the landscape takes on a more undulating form.
		The clays in Dorset have been used extensively for brick making, good examples of their use in building construction can be seen in galleries for: Blandford Forum, Poole.
		Within the chalk are nodules of flint, a hard glass-like substance; in the chalk areas many buildings can be found that use a form of construction that consists of a repeated pattern of courses of brick interleaved with layers of flint nodules set in mortar (E.g.
	www.imagesofdorset.org.uk /geologymap.htm (455 words)

	Discover Dorset - Geology (Circular 479) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Introduction and Chapter One set the scene by presenting the reader with a geological column, a simplified geological map of the county, and a brief account of the fundamental geological processes that conspired to make Dorset’s landscape what it is today.
		The authors passion and enthusiasm for Dorset geology is clearly evident.
		The book is widely available throughout the county of Dorset.
	earth.leeds.ac.uk /ygs/members/archive/reviews/books479.htm (279 words)

	Images of Dorset - A Photographic Guide to Dorset, England
		mages of Dorset – 1200+ photographs illustrating the landscape and rich visual diversity to be found across the county of Dorset, England.
		Let the pictures of Dorset guide you around the villages, valleys and along the county's stunning coastline.
		he photographs of Dorset have been arranged in galleries – grouped by date, location and event – to provide a virtual tour through the seasons and places that together give the county its distinctive character, making Dorset probably the most attractive county in England.
	www.imagesofdorset.org.uk (132 words)

	Earth Heritage - Dorset AONB
		Dorset’s geology is so important that the coastline has been designated as part of England’s first natural World Heritage Site.
		The rocks dip gently to the east so the oldest are found in the west with younger rocks forming the cliffs to the east.
		Today, the rocks create a beautiful and ever changing natural landscape, while their use in local buildings gives rise to the picturesque and distinctive character of the villages.
	www.dorsetaonb.org.uk /text01.asp?PageId=238 (335 words)

	Geology & Landscape Southern Britain Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		These rocks are overlain by a thick succession of essentially undeformed Mesozoic sedimentary strata – mudstone, sandstone, limestone and chalk –; laid down in the Wessex and Worcester Basins, including rocks of Jurassic age in the Cotswolds, and Jurassic, Cretaceous and Paleogene age in Dorset.
		Mapping in the Glastonbury district is elucidating the stratigraphy of the Lias Group, and the disposition of the Pleistocene-Holocene deposits of the Somerset Levels, which will be the subject of a major collaborative study including 3D LithoFrame modelling.
		A special memoir on the geology of the ‘Jurassic Coast’ of Dorset is nearing completion.
	www.bgs.ac.uk /programmes/landres/glsb/swgf_gloubris_geol.html (280 words)

	Discover Geology [page 1]: The Official Guide to the South West Coast Path
		See the Walks for Everyone pages to find descriptions of Coast Path walks which are especially good for geology.
		You can search for a walk that is known for its geological interest as well as by area, length and degree of difficulty.
		The coastal geology of Dorset and East Devon is so unique and played such an important part in the development of the earth sciences that it has been designated a World Heritage Site.
	www.southwestcoastpath.com /main/discover/geology.cfm (805 words)

	Dinazors o´Dorzet, Gyde fer Grockles
		This is the best preserved of Dorset's dinosaurs, and a fine specimen is on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
		Dorset´s rich geology is well reflected in the extensive Geological Section of this traditional museum.
		The rock exposures of Dorset run from the Triassic (west) to the Eocene (east).
	home.arcor.de /ktdykes/dorzet.htm (3003 words)

	Geology
		Along its length, the Dorset Coast Path provides a continuous exposure of the Jurassic beds (213 - 144 million years old), together with earlier Cretaceous beds in places.
		Geologists have long recognised the importance of the Dorset exposures, as all the major Jurassic rock types are so well revealed.
		An excellent site produced by Ian West of the Southampton Oceanography Centre which provides much more detail about the Geology of the Dorset Coast together with a number of field guides is at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/index.htm
	www.mills.clara.net /html/geology.html (181 words)

	Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
		Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society owns and runs the Dorset County Museum with the help of a grant from Dorset County Council.
		Cumulative index to the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society; here you will also find Monographs of the Society, and how you can buy these publications.
		Bibliography of Dorset Geology by Jo Thomas and Paul Ensom.
	www.dor-mus.demon.co.uk (326 words)

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