Notices of Memoirs — Bemhridge Limestone, Creechbarrow. 509 

 IsrOTIOElS OIF 3yEEI^OII?.S. 



I. — Bembkidge Limestone at Ckeechbaeeow Hill, Isle of 



PUKBECK.^ 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Professor T. McKenny Hughes 

 (Chairman), Mr. H. WOODS (Secretary), Dr. J. J. H. Teall, Dr. J. E. 

 Mark, Professor E. J. Garwood, Mr. Clement Eeid, Mr. W. Whitakek, 

 and Mr. H. A. Allen, appointed to investigate the occurrence of the 

 Bembridge Limestone at Creechbarrow Hill. 



On the Results of the Further Examination of Creechlarrow Sill. 



By Henry Keeping. 



{Abridged.) 



IN September, 1910, I was sent by Professor Hughes to collect 

 fossils on Creechbarrow, with a view to determining the age 

 of the limestone which caps the hill, and I obtained a sufficient 

 number of characteristic forms to enable me to refer the rock to 

 the Bembridge Limestone. In the report then published' I further 

 suggested that there was plenty of room for the rest of the Tertiary 

 beds which might be expected to occur below the Bembridge Limestone, 

 and I published a section in illustration of that view. 



A grant from the British Association has since enabled me to 

 ascertain, by means of excavations and borings, the nature of the 

 strata along the flank of the hill. 



Tlie details thus obtained were as follows : — 



Pit I {the Mgliest on the east side of the hill) . 



{a) Surface soil. ft. in. 



(6) Mixed clay and gravel with sharp angular flints . . .30 

 (c) Blocks of hard limestone with Melanopsis and Paludina . 2 

 {d) Bubbly limestone. This I recognized as the same as the 

 bed which occurs at the base of the limestone on 

 Headon Hill, where it is rich in mammalian remains. 

 I found here a tooth of Palczotherium on my last visit, 

 and we now obtained a good tooth of Dictidumus 

 leporimis (Owen) ........ 9 



(e) Caking sand ......... 3 6 



(/) Dark-brown sand ......... 14 6 



{g) Light-grey sand with a very large flint at the base. This is 

 on the same horizon as the bed in which Mr. Hudleston 

 found the curiously coated flints which he thought were 

 in situ and passed under the limestone . . . . 13 



25 



Pit n. 

 (a) Surface soil. 

 (6) Clay, sand, and gravel with fragments of weathered limestone 



at the bottom ......... 16 



^ Eeport communicated to British Association Meeting, Dundee, September, 

 1912, Section C (Geology). 



2 Geol. Mag., Dec. V, Vol. VH, October, 1910, p. 436. 



