Belemnite Marl	Black Ven Marl	Down Cliff Sands	Eype Clay Bed
Green Ammonite Bed	Junction Bed	Shales with Beef	Thorncombe Sands	Three Tiers Bed

Beds & Divisions

Please select the desired bed or division from the buttons at the top of the page.

Junction Bed
Marlstone Rock Bed

Fine grained pink-white limestone in this upper layer
Red-brown, oolitic , conglomeritic limestone in this lower layer

Thorncombe Sands

Yellow-brown sands, often indurated leading to formation of massive sandstone blocks or blue-centered doggers
Grey sandy marls in upper parts

Down Cliff Sands

Grey silty sands in lower parts, becoming browner and more sandy towards the top
Occasional nodules and sandstone bands

Eype Clay

Blue micaceous marls with impersistant bands of calcareous sandstone

Three Tiers

Three 0.6m thick bands of calcareous sandstone separated by marls

Green Ammonite Beds

Silty fissured clays with thin, irregular limestones and increasingly sandy towards top

Belemnite Marls

Hard, jointed, pale grey mudstones and marls

Black Ven Marls

Firm dark grey marls and paper shales with nodules and thin limestones

Shales with Beef

Upper part is brownish paper shales with numerous seams of beef
Lower part is blue conchoidal marls with bands of impure limestone and infrequent seams of beef