Lulworth Cove. Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southern England.
The cove is one of the world's finest examples of such a landform, and is a World Heritage Site and tourist location with approximately 500,000 visitors every year, of whom about 30 percent visit in July and August. It is close to the rock arch of Durdle Door and other Jurassic Coast sites.
The cove has formed as a result of bands of rock of alternating geological resistance running parallel to the coastline. On the seaward side the clays and sands have been eroded away.
A narrow band of Portland limestone rocks forms the shoreline. Behind this is a narrow band of slightly less-resistant Purbeck limestone.
Behind this are 300 to 500 metres of much less-resistant clays and greensands; Wealden clays, Gault and Upper Greensand. Forming the back of the cove is a 250-metre-wide band of chalk, which is considerably more resistant than the clays and sands, but less resistant than the limestones. The entrance to the cove is a narrow gap in the limestone bands, formed by wave action and weathering. The wide part of the cove is where the weak clays and greensands have been eroded. The unique shape of the cove is a result of wave diffraction. The narrow entrance to the cove causes waves to bend into an arced shape, as is visible in the photograph below. As well as the cove, across
The cove is one of the world's finest examples of such a landform, and is a World Heritage Site and tourist location with approximately 500,000 visitors every year, of whom about 30 percent visit in July and August. It is close to the rock arch of Durdle Door and other Jurassic Coast sites.
The cove has formed as a result of bands of rock of alternating geological resistance running parallel to the coastline. On the seaward side the clays and sands have been eroded away.
A narrow band of Portland limestone rocks forms the shoreline. Behind this is a narrow band of slightly less-resistant Purbeck limestone.
Behind this are 300 to 500 metres of much less-resistant clays and greensands; Wealden clays, Gault and Upper Greensand. Forming the back of the cove is a 250-metre-wide band of chalk, which is considerably more resistant than the clays and sands, but less resistant than the limestones. The entrance to the cove is a narrow gap in the limestone bands, formed by wave action and weathering. The wide part of the cove is where the weak clays and greensands have been eroded. The unique shape of the cove is a result of wave diffraction. The narrow entrance to the cove causes waves to bend into an arced shape, as is visible in the photograph below. As well as the cove, across
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