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  • Purbeck Marble is a fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England. It is a variety of Purbeck stone...
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    the past including amongst others the Purbeck Beds, Purbeck Formation, Purbeck Limestone Formation and Purbeck Stone. Rocks of this age have in the past...
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    stone and Purbeck limestone have both been quarried for centuries to provide construction material for buildings around the world. Purbeck ball clay is...
    21 KB (3,088 words) - 04:58, 14 May 2023
  • Purbeck stone refers to building stone taken from a series of limestone beds found in the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Group, found on the...
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    on Purbeck, with both Purbeck Ball Clay and limestones being transported from the area by road. There are now no functioning quarries of Purbeck Marble...
    15 KB (2,052 words) - 16:18, 3 May 2024
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    small bay immediately east of Durdle Door, the band of Portland and Purbeck limestone has not been entirely eroded and is visible above the waves as Man...
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    Portland limestone rocks forms the shoreline. Behind this is a narrow (less than 50 metres (160 ft)) band of slightly less-resistant Purbeck limestone. Behind...
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    Basin Pipe Creek Sinkhole Purbeck Limestone Formation Riversleigh Rock Point Provincial Park Sacul, El Petén St. Louis Limestone Santana Formation Solnhofen...
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    "The oldest fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Purbeck Limestone Group (Lower Cretaceous) of southern Great Britain". Polish Journal...
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    found in the Middle Purbeck Beds, an informal unit of the modern Purbeck Limestone Group, the formal name for the historic Purbeck Beds. British palaeontologist...
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    their length the chalk of the Purbeck Hills is protected from coastal erosion by a band of resistant Portland limestone. Where this band ends, at Durlston...
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    historically have supported a heathland habitat. The chalk and limestone hills of Purbeck lie atop Britain's largest onshore oil field. The field, operated...
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    the Isle of Portland Purbeck stone – Limestone from Dorset Purbeck Marble – Fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England (not...
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    Swanage (category Isle of Purbeck)
    built at the time. In contrast to the decorative Purbeck marble, Purbeck limestone, or more commonly 'Purbeck stone', has been used in construction locally...
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    Corfe Castle (category Isle of Purbeck)
    fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror...
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    subulatus, named in 1833 from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, and G. macrurus, known from the Purbeck Limestone of the UK. Its fossil remains dated back...
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  • & Ensom (1992), Multituberculate Mammals from the Upper Jurassic Purbeck Limestone Formation of southern England. Paleontology, 35, p. 95-126. Kielan-Jaworowska...
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    & Ensom (1992), "Multituberculate Mammals from the Upper Jurassic Purbeck Limestone Formation of southern England", Paleontology, 35, p. 95-126. Kielan-Jaworowska...
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  • from the Isle of Purbeck. Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom (1994), "Tiny plagiaulacoid multituberculate mammals from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset...
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  • remains from the Purbeck Limestone Group, southern England". Special Papers in Palaeontology. 68 (Life and Environments in Purbeck Times): 103–119. "†Sunnybatrachus...
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