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GEOLOGY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 



Thickitess. Depth, 



Hard flaggy sandstone with nodule 

 Black sandy clay with shells 

 Dark-green shelly clay with iron- 

 stone nodules. Gyrena obovata, 

 Paludina, Melania, Planorbis, 

 Balanus, and Serpula at 409 feet 

 Lead-coloured shelly clays. Gyth- 

 erea incrassata, Melania ? Natica, 

 and Balanus . - - 



Greenish and lead-coloured clay - 

 Green sandy clay. Cythcrea in- 

 crassata, Gyrena, Natica at 420 

 feet - . - - 



Green sand and sandy clay. Water 

 1^ at 448 feet 



Depth. 



1 



13 



10 

 1 



28 

 13 



Feet. 

 390 

 403 



409 



419 

 420 



448 

 461 



Newport. At the Steam Mills in Pyle Street. 

 Communicated by Mr. Taylor. 



Clay, dry - - - 



Clay, bored ._..-. 



Soft marly rock - - - - 



Ft. 



70 



75 



4 



149 



In. 





 

 6 



Newport. At the corner of South Street and Archer Street 

 Communicated by Mr. Lock. 



To rock - - 



Feet. 

 145 



Newport. At the Round pump. 

 Communicated by Mr. Lock. 



•Clay to rock ..-.-. 



Newport. Anchor Brewery, 3 wells. 

 Communicated by Mr. Lock. 



To rock ...... 



Rock -..--- 



Feet. 

 140 



Ft. In. 



150 

 7 5 



Newport. West Medina Cement Works. 

 Sunk and communicated by Mr. Parsons. 



Thickness. Depth. 



Hamstead 



Feet. 



f Clay with 5 beds of shaly rock / old \ 153 



, „ v, ■ J I Stone, with water - - \ well / 5 



and Bembridge ^ gj^^j^ ^^^j „^^^„ ^j^^^ . . jgf 



Yellow and white marl - - IJ 



Limestone and marl - - 1 



Beds 

 173 feet. 



Bembridge 



Limestone 



6 feet. 



Limestone 



Feet. 

 153 

 158 

 170 J 

 172 

 173 



179 



