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A view of the western part of Lulworth Cove,
Dorset, a classic locality for the study of basin inversion tectonics
in the UK. Late Jurassic-Cretaceous sediments have been
uplifted and rotated to sub-vertical northerly dips by Miocene
compressional tectonics associated with the Alpine orogeny.
The uplift is produced by the reactivation of the east-west-trending
Purbeck-lsle of Wight Fault.
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