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II.—On the Discovery of Bembridge Limestone Fossils on Creechbarrow Hill, Isle of Purbeck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Keeping
Henry Keeping
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
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When last year I had an opportunity of examining a few rocks and fossils from the limestone of Creechbarrow Hill, which the late Mr. W. H. Hudleston considered of Bagshot age, I at once suspected that they belonged to the Bembridge Limestone. Upon my pointing this out to Professor Hughes he requested me to go down to examine the ground, which I did in November of last year, but I found only the same fossils which Mr. Hudleston had recorded, namely, Melanopsis and Paludina. On my return to Cambridge I expressed the opinion that better evidence would probably be obtained if a few openings were made here and there, and the Professor arranged that I should carry out a further examination of the area at a more convenient season. This I have done, and I now offer the results of my further researches.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 10 , October 1910 , pp. 436 - 439
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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1 The only formations which have not been satisfactorily proved to occur are the Bracklesham, the Barton, and the Middle and Upper Headon. I have no douht that those could be found in the hill by the sinking of pits and perhaps of a few boreholes.