510 



EEPOBT — -1882. 



B H 



r 16 (e). Sand full of casts, bivalves . . . . 



Pleistocene mud ^ , . 



15. Hard sand, weathered green 



14. Shelly sand, greenish-brown, full of fossils, Cerithia and 

 Ctjtherea sfriatula (Little bed) . . . . . 

 13. Dark sandy clay with Tui-ritella imbricata 



Pleistocene clay, laminated, with Ostrea ediilis, &c.' . 

 12 (/). Dark clayey sand with numerous Cerithmm (jiganteum, 

 Pectunculus pulvinatus, &c. &c. . . . . , 



l_ 11. Septaria, resting on shelly sand with black flint pebbles . 



10, Laminated liver-coloured clays, sandy towards the bottom 

 9. Ostrea tenera bed, 18 inches thick . . . . . 

 8. Dark green sand, fuU of broken shells, Pectunculus pul- 

 vinatus, Lucina, Bulla Ediuardsii ..... 



Towards upper part (79 paces less) 



Shelly in the middle (48) abounding in Turritella ttrehel- 

 lata at the base ........ 



7. Soft laminated dark-coloured clay ..... 



Pleistocene mud, out of which in places protrudes a clay 

 weathered green ^ 



Paces 



218 

 80 

 70 



29 

 240 

 124 



163 

 150 



246 



52 



Y 175 



177 



288 



f 



C 



L 



40 



107 



105 



134 

 96 

 53 



111 



D -1 



6(^). NummuUna lavigata bed, with numerous fossils (Little 



Park bed) 



5. Sandy clay, weathered green ...... 



Beds covered partly with sea-sand and partly with Pleisto- 

 cene mud ......... 



4(/<). Dark mottled sandy clay, shells and scattered nummu- 

 lites, Jish and serpent remains (' Palate bed ') 

 Covered with sea sand ....... 



3. Dark sandy clay 



,, „ „ with broken shells 



Covered 30 



Turritella bed, T. imhricatm-ia and T. sulcifera ... 92 

 Septaria containing shells and occasioimlly Jlostellarut ampla 

 (08 paces), resting on a mass of Venen'cardia planicosta 

 and C. acutirostra ; the lower part of the bed is Green- 

 sand crowded with shells, among which, immediately 

 beneath the Cardifw, the Cypr<Ba tuberculosa occurs. The 

 bed then becomes less fossiliferous, and passes into a dark 

 grey laminated clay, broken up and re-arranged, mixed 

 with dai'k sand and black pebbles ('Barn bed,' Dixon) . 330 



5,010 

 Below this no fossils found. 



The Park on East side of Selsea and the Mi.ven Rochs. 



On the east side of Selsea peninsula, the highest bed seen is the Nnmmiilin't 

 Icevigata bed, rich in fossils. All the succeeding beds down to the Venericardia p)lani- 

 costn bed are usually exposed at ' ttie Park.'' 



Mi.ven Poclcs. — A ledge, one mile south of Selsea Bill, composed of a Miliola 

 and an AloeoUna, continuation of No. 22(6) only more calcareous. ' 



BOTTRNEMOCTH AeEA. 



The geology of this remarkable area has received attention from several 

 explorers: Sir Charles Lyell in 1826, Professor Prestwich in 1848, the Rev. 0. 

 Fisher in 1861 ; and in tbe year 1878 Mr. .John Starkie Gardner prepared and read 

 an able paper on the ' Description and Correlation of the Bournemouth Beds,' Part I., 



• Thf'S'' flav Vie'ls arc nearly modern in age, and cover up unconforniably the under- 

 Iviiis: l'.racklosh;nu bods. 



