1853,] TRIMMER SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS, ISLE OF WIGHT. 



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No. X. Seen in the bank. 



feet in. 



Coal and bat, mixed 1 



Good gas coal 2 7 



Bat 1 



Good coal ...., 3 9 



Pyrites-stone 2 



Hard coal 5 7 



Coal, worked by Adam Carr, 



Lessee, before the G. M. A 3 



Coal, not worked 7 



Total... 17 8 



" Success " Engine Pit, commenced 

 July 18th, 1851, finished October 26th, 



Surface clay 8 2 



Shale and bands of ironstone 



alternate 64 10 



Main coal seam — 



Coarsecoal 2 



Good coal 5 



Ironstone 6 



Good coal 14 4 



Ironstone 4 



Coarsecoal 7 7 



Ironstone 4 



Coarsecoal 3 1 



Ironstone 4 



Coarsecoal 2 11 



Ironstone 5 



Coarse coal 4 11 



Shale and bands of ironstone 

 alternate 157 7 



Deep seam — 



Badcoal 2 



Good coal 3 10 



Ironstone 1 2^ 



Coal 3 71 



Slatycoal 9^ 



Good coal 4 2 



Carried forward... 284 8i 



feet in. 

 Brought forward... 284 8^ 



Coarsecoal 1 0| 



Good coal, " worked by Carr "38 

 Inferior coal 6 3 



Total.. .295 8 



Third coal seam, 

 underlying deep seam at 154^ feet. 



No. P. 



Surface clay 10 



Black bat 9 



Coal, dip 21° 6 



Total... 25 



No. Q. 



Surface clay and bat 8 8 



Coal, dip 20°, N. 10 E 12 3 



Bat 6 



Coal 1 8 



Ironstone 2 



Shalyclay 1 



Total... 24 3 



Fourth coal seam, 



underlying third seam at 112 feet. 



" Close to a fault." 



Surface clay 8 



Shale 10 



Coal 1 



Shale and coal, mixed 5 



Total... 25 8 



November 16, 1853. 



E. B. Binney, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Superficial Deposits of the Isle of Wight. 

 By Joshua Trimmer, Esq., F.G.S. 



The following observations on the superficial deposits of the Isle of 

 Wight were made in 1 84 7, while studying the Eocene Tertiaries of 

 that district, preparatory to the mapping of the same strata in Hamp - 

 shire and Dorsetshire for the Government Geological Survey. 



An examination of the coast-sections of the greater part of the 



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