INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGISTS

Gallery of landform images

Durdle Door is the most famous sea arch on the Dorset Coast, located close to the coastal village of Lulworth. It is built of resistant Jurassic limestone, and the opening is (...) m wide and (...) m high. Bays along the coast demonstrate mechanism of bay formation and lithostructural control on this process. They develop through preferential erosion of relatively weak clays and sandstones sandwiched in between the resistant Jurassic limestone outcrop on the seaward side and Cretaceous chalk beds on the landward side. This photograph shows the Man O'War Cove. White Nothe is one of the biggest coastal landslides on the Dorset Coast. It is a multiple rotational slide and its rear scarp approaches 150 m in high.