Where is durdle door situated

Durdle Door is just west of West Lulworth. The beach is approached by a steep metre long footpath from the cliff top car park at Durdle Door holiday park. Skip to main content. Home beaches Isle of Purbeck Durdle Door.

Durdle Door. Type of Beach Shingle Dog Friendly? Facilities Toilets are available in the caravan park with facilities for disabled people. Dogs are allowed on the beach at Durdle Door year round, but do pick up after them and keep our coastline clean : Where is Durdle Door? Read below for how to get to Durdle Door! Similar to this. You might also like.

Search more. A shop and toilets including facilities for disabled people can be The form of the coastline around Durdle Door is controlled by its geology—both by the contrasting hardnesses of the rocks, and by the local patterns of faults and folds.

The arch has formed on a concordant coastline where bands of rock run parallel to the shoreline. The rock strata are almost vertical, and the bands of rock are quite narrow. Originally a band of resistant Portland limestone ran along the shore, the same band that appears one mile along the coast forming the narrow entrance to Lulworth Cove. Behind this is a metre ft band of weaker, easily eroded rocks, and behind this is a stronger and much thicker band of chalk, which forms the Purbeck Hills.

These steeply dipping rocks are part of the geological structure known as the Lulworth crumple, itself part of a broader monocline a kinked type of geological fold produced by the building of the Alps during the mid-Cenozoic.

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