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II.—On the Correlation of the Bournemouth Marine Series with the Bracklesham Beds, the Upper and Middle Bagshot Beds of the London Basin, and the Bovey Tracey Beds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In the spring of the year 1878 I brought under the notice of the Geological Society a paper describing for the first time as Marine, the Upper Series of the Bournemouth strata, present in thickness to the east of Bournemouth Pier. The publication has been delayed, but the present sketch will only to a very slight extent forestall it, and is written simply with a view to make clear the synchrony of the Bournemouth Marine Beds with the lower part of the Bracklesham Beds of the Hampshire Basin, the Middle and so-called Upper Bagshot Beds of the London Basin, and the Bovey Tracey Beds, the true position of the latter, especially, being more clear at the present moment than it was a few months ago. I propose first to describe briefly the Bournemouth Marine Strata, and then the other formations with which I have correlated them, in the order in which they are mentioned above.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1879

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page 149 note 1 Proc. Geol. Association, TOI. T. p. 55.

page 149 note 2 “ Nature,” May 3rd, 1877.

page 149 note 3 “ Nature,” April 19th, 1877.

page 149 note 4 As the Bracklesham flint-pebbles are usually encrusted with Litharea Websteri, probably this may explain the “ white coating.”.—EDIT. GEOL. MAG.

page 149 note 5 The uppermost of the Bournemouth freshwater series.

page 150 note 1 Trespassers are warned off, but the beds are nevertheless well worth examination. The sides, upwards of 100 feet high, are white as sugar, and worn into trellis-like patterns by rain. The ridge separating them, deprived of its gravel capping, and formed of snow-white sand, looks quite Alpine with its sharply-cut peaks and waterworn gulleys, easily magnified by a vivid imagination into chasms and crevasses.

page 151 note 1 I have made frequent but unavailing search for the leaves marked on the Geol. Survey Map as occurring here, but I have found leaves in the same beds in a brick-pit inland.

page 151 note 2 RevFisher, O., Q. J. G. S., 1862, vol. xviii. p. 67.Google Scholar

page 151 note 3 Q. J. G. S., 1862, vol. xviii. p. 84.Google Scholar

page 152 note 1 Mem. Geol. Surv., vol. vi. 1871, p. 333.Google Scholar

page 152 note 2 Q. J. G. S., vol. xiii. p. 106.Google Scholar

page 152 note 3 Phil. Trans., part iii. 1862, p. 3.Google Scholar

page 152 note 4 I.e. p. 18

page 153 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. ix.Google Scholar

page 153 note 2 From the Eoyal Herbarium, Kew. Plenasium bromeliaefolium, Presl., Ettingshausen's Famkrauter der Jetztwelt, p. 152, fig. 66, 67; pi. 80, fig. 1. Isle of Luzon.