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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13365219685).jpg 256 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Jan 23 <br> clay of HampsMre \ritli that of the London district I had occasion <br> to allude frequently to this basement bed in the Isle of Wight and <br> in the western part of the London district In addition to the sections <br> of the central and eastern area of the London tertiaries which did <br> not then come under notice I pm-pose gi 'ing a few of the leading <br> sections I then alluded to in more detail than I could in a paper <br> which embraced a wider subject and to which this point was only <br> secondaiy <br> I will take separately the sections and lists of the organic remains <br> at each locahty and afterwards endeavour to show their co-relation <br> To resume m the Isle of \M2;ht with the interesting section of this <br> bed at White Cliff Bay See fig 1 <br> Fig \ ” Section of a part of White ClifBay <br> b London clay ; dark brown and grey clay ; in de- <br> scending becomes mixed ith green sand Fossils <br> scarce <br> Tabular septaria with numerous fossUs <br> 2 IMised clay and green sand like 4 3 Dark <br> green sand full of the Ditrupa playia 4 <br> Brown sandy clay much mixed with green <br> sand and passing downwards into a conglo- <br> merate with round flint pebbles and partly <br> rounded pebbles of chalk and red clay Con- <br> tains a few Ditrupa plana 3 to 4 feet <br> c <br> Ostrea a large undetermined species <br> Pectunculus brevirostris Sow <br> Pyrula tricostata Desk <br> Rostellaria Sowerbyi Mant <br> Teeth of Lamnaef <br> Mottled clays ” dark red upper part of <br> The occurrence of pebbles of the underhung mottled red clay m <br> the lower part of the basement of the London clay c is a fact here <br> to be particularly noticed <br> The organic remains found in this bed are as under ” <br> Cardium Plumsteadiense Sow <br> Corbula a finely striated species <br> Cytherea obliqua Desk <br> Ditrupa plana Sow sp <br> Natica glaucinoides Sow <br> Traces of carbonized yegetables and <br> wood <br> Passing over to the northern part of the Hampshire tertiary di- <br> strict the only good section of this bed that I am acquainted with <br> was exposed in a cutting on the Railway at Clarendon Hill three miles <br> E S E of Sahsbuiy See fig 2 <br> For an outline map of the tertiary strata see Quart Joum Geol Soc vol iii <br> pi xiv <br> t I have omitted the name of the species as I feel in doubt as to which of <br> Agassiz's species to refer it It probably is the L elegans or there may be more <br> than one species The same species accompany tliis bed throughout its entire <br> range 36934111 113689 51125 Page 256 Text v 6 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934111 1850 Geological Society of London NameFound Cardium NameConfirmed Cardium EOLID 50301 NameBankID 2693257 NameFound Corbula NameConfirmed Corbula EOLID 56976 NameBankID 2693839 NameFound Cytherea obliqua NameFound Ditrupa NameConfirmed Ditrupa EOLID 52269 NameBankID 2552122 NameFound Ditrupa plana NameConfirmed Ditrupa plana NameFound Lamna elegans NameConfirmed Lamna elegans NameFound Natica glaucinoides NameFound Ostrea NameConfirmed Ostrea EOLID 10719983 NameBankID 2692450 NameFound Pectunculus brevirostris NameConfirmed Pectunculus brevirostris NameBankID 6464541 NameFound Pyrula tricostata NameFound Rostellaria NameConfirmed Rostellaria EOLID 4873050 NameBankID 3940657 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 6 1850 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36934111 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934111 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-23 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13365219685 2015-08-26 11 57 17 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1850 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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