﻿C. 
  J. 
  A. 
  METER 
  ON 
  THE 
  CRETACEOUS 
  ROCKS 
  OF 
  BEER 
  HEAD. 
  369 
  

  

  29. 
  On 
  the 
  Cretaceous 
  Rocks 
  of 
  Beer 
  Head 
  and 
  the 
  adjacent 
  Cliff- 
  

   sections, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  Relative 
  Horizons 
  therein 
  of 
  the 
  Warmin- 
  

   ster 
  and 
  Blackdown 
  Fossiliferous 
  Deposits. 
  By 
  C. 
  J. 
  A. 
  Meyer, 
  

   Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  (Read 
  April 
  29, 
  1874.) 
  

  

  The 
  Cretaceous 
  rocks 
  which 
  cap 
  the 
  higher 
  ground 
  over 
  a 
  considerable 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  south-east 
  of 
  Devonshire, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  partial 
  

   destruction 
  of 
  which 
  vast 
  beds 
  of 
  gravel 
  have 
  accumulated 
  over 
  the 
  

   same 
  area, 
  are 
  exposed 
  on 
  the 
  coast-line 
  between 
  Seaton 
  and 
  the 
  

   west 
  of 
  Sidmouth 
  in 
  numerous 
  fine 
  cliff-sections. 
  The 
  strata 
  thus 
  

   exposed, 
  while 
  resembling 
  in 
  great 
  measure 
  the 
  various 
  corresponding 
  

   deposits 
  of 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  England, 
  possess 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  a 
  certain 
  

   fades 
  of 
  their 
  own 
  which 
  renders 
  their 
  correlation 
  in 
  part 
  a 
  matter 
  

   of 
  uncertainty. 
  I 
  purpose 
  to 
  offer 
  in 
  this 
  paper 
  a 
  description 
  of 
  certain 
  

   of 
  these 
  cliff-sections, 
  to 
  point 
  out 
  the 
  various 
  petrological 
  and 
  palseon- 
  

   tological 
  subdivisions 
  of 
  the 
  strata 
  therein 
  exposed, 
  and 
  to 
  leave 
  to 
  the 
  

   consideration 
  of 
  others 
  the 
  chief 
  point 
  of 
  interest 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  as 
  

   yet 
  unable 
  to 
  determine, 
  namely 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  the 
  lowermost 
  deposit. 
  

  

  This 
  paper 
  probably 
  contains 
  little 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  already 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  

   in 
  the 
  writings 
  of 
  previous 
  observers. 
  But 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  result 
  

   of 
  independent 
  observation, 
  it 
  may 
  not 
  be 
  without 
  its 
  value. 
  

  

  Reference 
  to 
  Previous 
  Descriptions. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  papers, 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  shall 
  have 
  occasion 
  to 
  

   refer, 
  are 
  amongst 
  the 
  principal 
  contributions 
  to 
  the 
  literature 
  of 
  

   the 
  subject 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  De 
  La 
  Beche, 
  Sir 
  H. 
  T. 
  (1822). 
  " 
  Remarks 
  on 
  the 
  Geology 
  of 
  

   the 
  South 
  Coast 
  of 
  England," 
  &c. 
  Trans. 
  Geol. 
  Soc. 
  ser. 
  2, 
  

   vol. 
  i. 
  pp. 
  40 
  & 
  95. 
  

  

  De 
  La 
  Beche, 
  Sir 
  H. 
  T. 
  (1826). 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Chalk 
  and 
  Sands 
  be- 
  

   neath 
  it 
  (usually 
  termed 
  Greensand) 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Lyme 
  

   Regis," 
  &c. 
  Trans. 
  Geol. 
  Soc. 
  ser. 
  2, 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  109. 
  

  

  Fitton, 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  H. 
  (1836). 
  "On 
  the 
  Strata 
  between 
  the 
  Chalk 
  

   and 
  the 
  Oxford 
  Oolite 
  in 
  the 
  South-east 
  of 
  England." 
  Trans. 
  

   Geol. 
  Soc. 
  ser. 
  2, 
  vol. 
  iv. 
  p. 
  233 
  &c. 
  

  

  De 
  La 
  Beche, 
  Sir 
  H. 
  T. 
  (1839). 
  Ordn. 
  Surv. 
  ' 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  

   Geology 
  of 
  Cornwall, 
  Devon, 
  and 
  West 
  Somerset,' 
  p. 
  237. 
  

  

  Godwin- 
  Austen, 
  R. 
  A. 
  C. 
  (1842). 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Geology 
  of 
  the 
  South- 
  

   east 
  of 
  Devonshire." 
  Trans. 
  Geol. 
  Soc. 
  ser. 
  2, 
  vol. 
  vi. 
  p. 
  433. 
  

  

  Hutchinson, 
  P. 
  0. 
  (1843). 
  ' 
  The 
  Geology 
  of 
  Sidmouth 
  and 
  of 
  

   South-eastern 
  Devon.' 
  8vo. 
  Sidmouth. 
  

  

  Renevier, 
  M. 
  E. 
  (1856). 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Vaudoise 
  Sc. 
  Nat. 
  v. 
  pp. 
  51, 
  52. 
  

  

  Whitaker, 
  W. 
  (1870). 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Chalk 
  of 
  the 
  Southern 
  Part 
  of 
  

   Devon 
  and 
  Dorset." 
  Quart. 
  Journ. 
  Geol. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  xxvii. 
  p. 
  93. 
  

  

  The 
  Cretaceous 
  rocks 
  in 
  their 
  range 
  westward 
  from 
  the 
  Isle 
  of 
  

   Wight 
  repose 
  successively 
  on 
  the 
  abraded 
  surface 
  of 
  older 
  and 
  yet 
  

  

  