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GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



>- 99 () 



90 



In. 

 5 



1 



2 



V 40 



Ft. In. 



Thinly laminated clay, chocolate-coloured in the upper part. 

 Details : — — ^ 



Clay 



Lignite (very bituminous) 



Clay, with a band of lignite 5 or 6 feet from the 

 base ------ 



Thinly laminated yellow sandstone, with much 

 carbonaceous matter - - 4 inches to 



Clay ; white, hard and marly - - - 



Tawny, variegated, pink and white sands, with brown~| 

 laminae : white sand predominates. - - - I 



(Iron bands 1 inch thick occur at 52 feet and 79 feet from [ 

 the bottom) - - - - - -J 



Pale grey and yellowish-brown sands, with thin laminae of a"] 

 darker grey clay, containing pyrites and carbonaceous | 



matter - - - - - "."'*> 60 



(Some of the laminae, when newly broken, are of a greenish .' 



colour. These beds are darker and most laminated in the J 



lower part, and are most sandy towards the upper part) -J 



Light grey sandy clay, with vegetable matter lying across 



the bedding - - - - - 



Fawn coloured and whitish sands, slightly variegated with~ 

 red : the upper 10 feet slightly laminated. 



Details :— Ft, 



Slightly laminated white sand - - 9 



Irony band - - - - 



White, pmk and yellow laminated sand, with 

 veins of white pipeclay and bright red 

 laminte of iron - - - - 7 6 



Fine light yellow sand - - - 23 



Pipeclay (full of leaves) between yellowish-white and varie- 

 gated laminated clays. The lower 2 inches are composed 

 of sandy white pipeclay, with laminae of yellow and 

 crimson sand, becoming thicker towards the upper part of 

 theclifiP - - - - 



Bright yellow sand, with thin lam.inae of blue clay 



Iron band ------- 



Grey and yellow sands. 



Details:— Ft. In.' 



Yellow and grey sands - - - - 15 



Grey laminated sands and clays; mostly sands 18 



Do. nearly all >• 45 



clay : very carbonaceous - - - 11 



Grey laminated sands and clay ; clay predomi- 

 nating _ - . - - 

 Iron sandstone band and tawny ironsand with ferru- 

 ginous veins and strings, and pebbles of quartz - 6 to 3 

 Grey sands, &c. 

 Details: — 



Pale yellow and bluish white sand, darker in 



the upper part and with a few laminae of clay 16 

 Blue clay with thin (i inch) sandy laminae ; ^104 



carbonaceous matter - - _ - 27 



Grey and yellow sands, with thin lamince of 

 blue clay; much pyrites and carbonaceous 

 matter - - - - - 61 



(N.B. — These beds have a slightly reversed dip towards the 



top of the cliff.) 

 Bright yellow and white "sands, rtiore laminated and clayey 

 than the bed above, aihd containing much carbonaceous 

 matter. The lower 5 feet sand - - - - 23 



Iron sandstone - - - - - -30 



Parting of pale clay of variable thickness - - - 2 



6 



13 



2 



3 6 



