P number: | P805982 |
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Caption: | Stair Hole. Swanage Excursion, May 14th 1910. |
Description: | Here the sea having bored a hole in the Portland Limestone has gained access to the Wealden strata behind. The soft Upper Purbeck strata and the Wealden sands and clays are being rapidly scoured out leaving a large oval hollow enclosed seawards by a wall of Limestone. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
Additional information: | From the Geologists' Association Carreck Archive. The Reader Geological Photographs Long Excursions 1910. |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 155.17 KB; 999 x 755 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 200 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
Categories: | Special collections/ Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive'/ T W Reader geological photographs long excursions 1910 |
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