| P number: | P806003 |
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| Caption: | Fossil Forest, Lulworth. Swanage Excursion, May 14th 1910. |
| Description: | This forest grown land surface of the Lower Purbeck is studded with stumps of coniferous trees with their roots embedded in the soil among which are many prostrate trunks which are enveloped in limestone which has originated as a structureless deposit of tufa such as is deposited in water oversaturated with carbonate of lime. The tufaceous envelope generally domes over the heads of the stumps. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | From the Geologists' Association Carreck Archive. The Reader Geological Photographs Long Excursions 1910. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 267.72 KB; 999 x 777 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 206 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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