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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in France and in Britain, geological and topographical mapping became a major occupation. A leading figure in Britain was William Smith, whose map of the geology of England and Wales appeared in 1815. In 1816, Thomas Webster produced a geological map of a portion of the Jurassic Coast and started to develop the nomenclature for the various geological formations in the geological succession, including Purbeck, Portland, Kimmeridge Clay, Lower Greensand, and Upper Greensand. Later mapping work in the area was produced by Edward Forbes, Henry Bristow, Alfred Jukes-Browne, Clement Reid, Horace Woodward, William Ussher, Aubrey Strahan, and Jocelyn Arkell. |
