Geological pioneers of the jurassic coast / Геологические первопроходцы юрского побережья

The purpose of this book is to recount the lives and achievements of some of the great geologists and geomorphologists who have studied the Jurassic Coast, England’s only natural World Heritage Site, and have made it the Mecca that it has become for all those interested in Earth Science since the late seventeenth century. We classify these individuals into six groups: the earliest investigators, the fossil collectors, the geologists of the so-called Golden Age, the geological mappers, gifted stratigraphers and palaeontologists, and remarkable amateurs and some other stars. This is not a perfect classification, and, for example, Marie Stopes, while remarkable, was perhaps as much a professional as an amateur.
The Jurassic Coast includes approximately 155 kilometres of coastline between Orcombe Rocks, at the mouth of the River Exe in Devon, and the geological boundary between the Cretaceous and later strata in Studland Bay in east Dorset (Figure 1.1). It embraces the towns of Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Seaton, Lyme Regis, Charmouth, West Bay, Portland, Weymouth, and Swanage. The Dorset and East Devon Coast was inscribed on the World Heritage List in Helsinki on 13 December 2001. The site was granted World Heritage status under UNESCO’s criterion viii—Earth’s history and geological features—which indicated that its geology and geomorphology were of Outstanding Universal Value. It is currently managed by the Jurassic Coast Trust, an independent charity. <...>