Usually means: Layered limestone and shale formation.
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noun:  A former local government district in Dorset, abolished on 1 April 2019 and merged into the Dorset unitary authority.
noun:  Short for Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in Dorset, England. [A peninsula (not an island) on the coast of Dorset, England.]

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