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LULWORTH COVE. 

 Showing the contortions of the strata in the face of the cliff. 



THE CLIFFS AND THEIR STORY— II 



By F. MARTIN DUNCAN, F.R.P.S. 

 With Photographs by the Author 



ONE of the most remarkable stretches 

 of coast, at once for its pictur- 

 esqueness and varied character, is 

 to be found between Barton Cliff in 

 Hampshire and Lul worth Cove in Dorset. 

 If we ramble over this area of coast, we 

 shall find the cHffs varying to a wonderful 

 degree, in height and shape, while the 

 fossil remains stored within them will 

 yield most eloquent illustration to the 

 story of their formation. 



\Mnd. rain, and tide are for ever busy 

 upon the Barton Chffs, undermining, 

 wearing away, so that fresh surfaces are 



constanth' being exposed, in which the 

 fossil remains of the creatures which 

 existed during that period of the earth's 

 history when the Barton clay was forming 

 are clearly visible, and may. with the 

 exercise of a little care and patience, 

 be extracted from the clay in which 

 they are embedded. Indeed, the Barton 

 ClifiEs are quite a happy hunting-ground 

 for the collector of fossils, and they are 

 of particular interest, because the Barton 

 clay is quite a local deposit, whicli 

 on stratigraphical and paheontoiogical 

 grounds is considered to be the equivalent 



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