WELL SECTIONS. 



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• Water flowed up from the bottom, and, at the surface, seemed to have some 

 head. 



Newport. Messrs. Mew & Co.'s Brewery. 



(From . information and samples communicated by Arthur Kinder, Esa.) 

 Surface 12 feet above O.D. Well sunk 138 feet; boring carried to 

 460 feet. Temperature of the water 61 " D°. 



Thickness. Depth. 



Feet. 



Hamstead 



and 

 Bembridge 



Beds. 

 Bembridge 

 Limestone. 



Osborne Beds 

 107 feet. 



Upper 



Headon Beds 



82J feet. 



Middle 

 Headon 



Beds 

 106J feet. 



E 56786. 



Clay, with thin rock at 26 feet 

 - and 90 feet (no samples pre- 

 served) - - - - 



Limestone 



f Mottled clays . - - 



Shell limestone and green marl 

 full of Cyrena at about 180 feet. 

 Platy shale full of Ostracoda at 

 about 180 feet. Cyrena obovata 

 in green clay at about 200 feet 

 [samples are not marked with 

 the depths] - - - 



^Mottled clays. Cyrena at 245 feet 

 'Lead-coloured shelly clays 

 Mottled green, red, and yellow 

 clays - - - - 



Greenish sand - - - 



Mottled dark-red and green clays 

 Mottled green, red, and yellow 

 clays . - . - 



Limestone ... 



Green clay . . - 



Limestone. Lignite at 313 feet. 



Turtle bone at 313 feet - 

 Pale green, red, and yellow clays - 

 Brown and green clays 

 Whitish marl and green soapy clay 

 Darker green marl 

 White marl, with indeterminable 



shells and fish bones 

 Lead coloured clay and shell marl 

 Green clay 



Lead coloured clay with Cyrena - 

 White chert [Fragments marked 



356 feet] 

 Greenish marl full of Cyrena 

 Pale green marl - - . 



Green marl. Potamomya, Cyrena, 

 Serpula - - - - 



Dark-green and yellow marl, 



Melania muricata 

 White shell-marl with indetermin- 

 able bivalves and fish bones 

 White marl and dark-green clay. 

 Potamomya - . - 



Green clay and ironstone nodule - 

 Lead-coloured shelly marl 

 Dark-green shelly marl full of 

 Cyrena - - - - 



Limestone or hard marl, full of 

 indeterminable shell fragments - 

 Hard shell bed (pyrites) - 



148 



4 



28 



20 

 59 



22 

 1 

 5 



9 

 4 



4 



3 

 26^ 

 2i 

 3 

 1 



4 

 1. 



if 

 3 



Oi 



-2 



5i 

 3 

 5 

 3 



Feet. 



148 



152 



180 



200 

 259 

 267 



289 

 290 

 295 



304 

 308 

 312 



315 



34U 



344 



347 



348 



350 

 354 

 3544 

 356 



359 

 361| 



367 



370 



375 



378 

 379 

 380 



381 



388 

 389 



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