Thin Section 91 Osmington Oolite Pisolite
Trace Fossil Spongelio morpha Redcliff Point
A selection of photographs of the Dorset coast, a World Heritage Site, taken by Professor Michael House over a span of 50 years
The Dorset GA has over 1000 of these recordings
Bowleaze Cove to Arish Mell
Trace fossil Gyrophyllites
Trace fossil Diplocriterion
Bowleaze Cove toward Redcliff Point 1985
Thin Section 100: Osmington Oolite
Arkell's Bed 6 BRan Point, Osmington Mills
Thin Section 106: Wealden Grit
Durdle Door
Thin Section 109: U Greensand Durdle Door
1984 Fossil Forest and 1999
Mupe rocks and Bacon Hole1984
Thin Section 111 U Greensand Durdle Door
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Michael's field transparencies and rock thin sections were made available to the DGAG for public use by Felicity House in 2003. DGAG members Peter Bath has produced many new thin sections to fill in the gaps and Leon Sparrow scanned all material to disc
Thin Section 116 Salt Pseudomorph Bed
east of Lulworth Cove
Thin Sections 103 (ppl) & 104 (xpl) Pink Lignite Beds Wealdon Beds, Durdle Door
Thin Sections 95 & 99, Arkell's Bed 1, west of Bran Point, Osmington Mills