GEOLOGICAL EXCURSIONS 



VL\it 3)slc of imti)t. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY GEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTH- 

 EAST OF ENGLAND — TABULAR ARRANGEMENT OF THE STRATA 



LONDON EOCENE DEPOSITS— CHALK FORMATION — WEALDEN FORMA- 

 TION — LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY SECTION GEOLOGICAL 



MUTATIONS. 



Introductory. — Although this work is in- 

 tended to serve as a guide for the tourist un- 

 acquainted with geology^ the general diffusion of 

 the elements of the science, which has, of late 

 years, been effected by our periodical literature, 

 renders it unnecessary to enter at large upon the 

 principles of this department of natural know- 

 ledge. Happily, the time has arrived, when the 

 grand truths relating to the physical history of the 

 globe, have, like those of Astronomy, passed into 

 acknowledged axioms : to remind the well-informed 

 reader that the ancient sea and river-beds which 



