Abstract: An account of the structure of the Weymouth Anticline in south Dorset is based uppon a new survey. Fuller's Earth crops out in the Anticline core from the Fleet shore to the banks of the Wey. The numerous strike faults which cut the core are described and some new structural details along the Ridgeway Fault belt are given. Borehole evidence obtained by the British Petroleum Company at Chaldon Herring is recorded and the evidence it provides on the Tertiary reactivation of an Intra-Cretaceous fault is discussed. An Intra-Cretaceous age for the Broadwey Anticline, as suggested by Strahan, is confirmed following the connection by mapping of the Broadwey with the Hamcliff Anticlines. The suggestion of Arkell that faults downthrowing north in the lowland are Tertiary in age and those downthrowing south are Intra-Cretaceous is supported. The westward disappearance of the Purbeck Monocline is discussed and it is suggested that the Radipole Fault may be the westward continuation of a reversed fault which replaces the middle limb of the Monocline near White Nothe.
Publication Year: 1984
Publication Date: 1984-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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