Cow Corner

50.62317 - 2.19903Koordinaten: 50 ° 37 ' 23 " N, 2 ° 11' 57 " W

As Cow Corner known is the western end of the Worbarrow Bay east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck Peninsula. The Worbarrow Bay is located approximately 6 km south of Wareham and about 10 kilometers east of Swanage, in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. It forms the west subsequent Mupe Bay a kind of double bay, which is separated by the small Bay of Arish Mell in an eastern ( Worbarrow Bay) and a Western ( Mupe Bay) part.

Geology

Cow Corner is part of the Jurassic Coast, which is since 2001 part of the World Heritage of UNESCO. The geology of the Isle of Purbeck is very complex, and it shows on this coast very clearly.

The sequences of rocks of Worbarrow Mupe Bay and Bay are very similar and in fact mirrored. The cliffs in the south, at the back of the double bay, and thus which consist of Cow Corner from the Upper Cretaceous limestones ( commonly known as " chalk rock " means ). Towards the front of the double bay, towards the open sea, increasingly align themselves with older rocks. In the Upper Cretaceous of the Upper Greensand follow, including the Gault clay and the sandstone -dominated strata of the Wealden - Lower Cretaceous. The subsequent to it, lithologically very varied Purbeck layers are in their lower part already Upper Jurassic age. At the front of the Double Bay, in the area of ​​the small cape Worbarrow Tout and Mupe Rocks forming limestones of the Upper Jurassic Portland Stone Formation the completion of the sequence. All layers have been erected tectonically and a fall of about 45 to 60 degrees.

• See also Geology of the Isle of Purbeck