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PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



POSTPONED PAPER, 



On the Distribution of the Flint Drift of the South-east of 

 England, on ^Flanks o/^Weald, and over the Surface 

 of the South and North Downs. By Sir Roderick Impey 

 Murchison, G.C.St.S., F.R.S. G.S. L.S., Hon. Mem. R.S. 

 Edinburgh, R.I. Ac, Mem. Imp. Ac. Sc. St. Petersburgh, Corr. 

 Mem. Ac. France, Berlin, Turin, Copenhagen, &c. &c, and Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Geographical Society, London. 



Read May 14, 1851. 

 [For the other Communication read at this evening Meeting, vide supra, p. 257,] 



Contents. 



Denudation of the Central Region of the Wealden, p. 350. 

 Distribution of the Flint Drift over the Surface of the Weald Clay, Lower Green- 

 sand, &c. in Hampshire and Sussex, p. 351. 

 Anticlinal in the South Downs, p. 359. 

 Detritus on the Sides of the Transverse Valleys, p. 360. 

 Drift on the Southern Slope of the South Downs, p. 362. 

 Extension of the Angular Drift along the South Downs westward, p. 370. 

 Round Tertiary Shingle on the South Downs, p. 372. 



Detritus of the Hampshire Chalk-range and of the North Downs, as distributed 



towards the Weald and over the Tertiary Deposits, p. 373. 

 Drift at Dover and Folkestone, p. 384. 

 Generalization of the Wealden Drift Phenomena, p. 387. 

 Generalization of British and Foreign Drift Phenomena, p. 390. 

 Postscript, p. 395. 



Although the tract about to be noticed has for many years been 

 under the consideration of geologists who have well explained the 

 structure of its rocks, and the physical dislocations by which they have 

 been affected, the points to which I invite attention in the title of 

 vol. vn. — part i. 2 c 



