Durdle Door Dorset

by Gordon James

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Durdle Door Dorset

Artist

Gordon James

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Photograph - Photography Digital

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Durdle Door is one of the Jurassic Coast’s most iconic landscapes. It is a natural arch, formed from a layer of hard limestone standing almost vertically out of the sea.

Around 25 million years ago the African tectonic plate collided with the European plate. The huge pressures generated heaved and folded rocks to create the mountain chain we know as the Alps.

Ripples from that collision spread north through the Earth’s crust and gently folded the rocks here, in what would become south Dorset and Purbeck.

Legend has it, the rocks are approximately 140 million years old.
The structure is about 200 feet tall.
The first time it appeared on the Ordnance Survey Map, way back in 1811, it was called Dirdale Door.
The footpath from Lulworth Cove is used by over 200,000 people each year - the busiest across the whole of the South West.
It's a great spot for music videos, used by Billy Ocean and Tears for Fears. The Jurassic Coast is home to other famous music videos too.

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January 26th, 2021

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