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QEOLOGl OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



Junction of London Clay and Reading Beds at Alum Bay. 



(Observed by Mr. Whitaker in 1865.) 



"Grey and brown sandy clay, with here and there a 

 small flint-pebble : — passing down into the next bed. 

 f Grey and brown loam or clayey sand 

 I partly with clay-lines and green grains ; 

 London Clay -^ t> ■. | shells, and hard masses (sometimes 



,1 '"{ concretionary clayey limestone and 

 ironstone 6 inches thick) 4 or Ah, feet. 

 Coarse pea-iron-ore 3 inches to a foot 

 (^ or more. 

 Reading Beds. Grey and crimson plastic clay. 



Fossils from the Basement-hed of the London Clay in the Jslc of 



Wight. 



P = first noted by Prestwich. 



W= „ 



Whitaker. 



• Here recorded for the first time (from the Isle of Wiglit). 



The following section was measured in July 1888 with the assis- 

 tance of Mr. Henry Keeping. It continues the upward succession 

 given at j). 95. 



