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PRACTICALLY the whole of the Dorset rock consists of formations of Mesozoic age, and it has, moreover, a wonderfully extensive and various catalogue of fossils. Whereas one may traverse the greater part of Cornwall without finding fossils at all, here in Dorset one cannot go into any little bay or cove without finding an abundant and extensive fauna. Few portions of our Jurassic rocks can be studied in such detail and admirable sequence as the Dorset coast line, which forms a very distinct opposite to the neighbouring coast of Devon.
The Dorset Coast: a Geological Guide
By G. M. Davies. Pp. vii + 126 + 8 plates. (London: Thomas Murby and Co., n.d.) 6s. net.
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STEPHENS, F. [Book Reviews]. Nature 136, 935 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136935a0
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