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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Face 

 Preface, by the Director-General - - - - iii 



Notice, bv H. "W. Bristow, F.R.S. - - - - vii 



CHAPTER I. 

 Introduction and Table of Strata 



CHAPTER II. 



WEALDEN BEDS:— 



Introduction ._.„-. -3 



Brook and Compton Bay - - - - - 5 



Brook to Atherfield - - - - - -11 



Sandown Bay - - - - - - -16 



CHAPTER III. 



LOWER GREENSAND OR UPPER NEOCOMIAN :— 



Introduction - - - - - - -18 



Compton Bay - - - - - - -21 



The Atherfield Clay and Perna Bed - - - - 24 



The Ferruginous Sands - - - - - 26 



The Sand-rock Series - •> - - - - 30 



Sandown to Bonchurch : — 



The Atherfield Clay and Ferruginous Sands - - - 32 



The Sand-rock Series - - - - - - 34 



Sandown to Culver Cliff - - - - - 34 



PuNFiELD Cove - - - - - - -37 



CHAPTER IV. 



LOWER GREENSAND— corafinMed 



Inland Sections : — 



(1.) Along the Central Downs - - - - 40 



(2.) Around the Southern Downs - - - 44 



Indications of Conditions under which these 



Beds were deposited - - - '4/ 



Correlation with the Mainland - - 49 



CHAPTER V. 



LOWER GREEl<f SAND— continued. 

 THE CARSTONE:— 



Introduction - - - - - - -52 



Compton Bay to Red Cliff - - - - - 55 



From Niton and Blackgang to Shanklin and Bonchurch 57 



