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Purbeck beds
Purbeck beds Pur"beck beds` [So called from the Isle of Purbeck in England.] (Geol.) The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the O["o]litic group. See the Chart of Geology.

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- Purbeck. The labels Purbeck Limestone, Purbeck stone, Purbeck series and Purbeck strata were all used by Webster in 1816, with Purbeck Beds first used by Sir...
- of Jur****ic rocks, including Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds. The latter include Purbeck Marble, a particularly hard limestone that can be polished...
- stone. Stratigraphically these limestone beds lie towards the top of the Durlston Formation of the Purbeck Group. They were deposited during the Berriasian...
- Purbeck stone refers to building stone taken from a series of limestone beds found in the Upper Jur****ic to Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Group, found on the...
- county are the Purbeck Beds or more formally the Purbeck Group, which are of Late Jur****ic to Early Cretaceous age. The Purbeck Beds outcrop at three...
- found in the Middle Purbeck Beds, an informal unit of the modern Purbeck Limestone Group, the formal name for the historic Purbeck Beds. British palaeontologist...
- well as tentatively referring other camptosaur-like material from the Purbeck beds to the species. The identity of the species was questioned, with Kenneth...
- rocks exposed at the centre of the anticline are correlated with the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jur****ic. Above these, the Cretaceous rocks, include the...
- Cretaceous rocks (Wealden Group) and a small area of Upper Jur****ic Purbeck Beds. On the French side of the English Channel more Upper Jur****ic rocks...
- within the Purbeck sections of the formation is the "Co**** Quartz Grit", an up to 6 metre thick sequence of conglomeratic ironstone, with many beds including...