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II.—On the Chalk of the Cliffs from Seaford to Eastbourne, Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Just out of Seaford the Chalk rises sharply from beneath the sand of the Woolwich Beds, on an outlier of which the small town is buUt. The dip however soon lessens, until the Chalk is flat, with slight waves. Some of the layers of flint are continuous, and some nearly so, but most are not continuous, and they are rather closer together in the lower part of the cliff. There are a few thin beds of hard chalk, and at the top a capping of “clay-with-flints.”

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1871

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page 198 note 1 Quart Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 322.Google Scholar

page 200 note 1 Trans. Geol. Soc. i. vol. v. p. 16.Google Scholar

page 200 note 2 Not noticed by Phillips, as it does not occur on the coast he described. See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxi p. 395.Google Scholar