Dr. FiTTON on the Strata below the Chalk. 



US 



Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, and of Parham Park in Western 

 Sussex. 



(27.) The following sections, at a prominent point of the cliff, between 

 Sandgate and Folkstone, include a portion of the first or upper member of 

 the lower green-sand («.), with the upper part of the middle stratum (6.). 



Section of the Cliffy between Folkstone and Sandgate. 



(a.) 



1 . Sand, with numerous courses of concretional stone, and traces of false 



stratification 



2. A prominent group of sand and concretional stone ; 



a. Stone. Firm, uniform, fine-grained, sparry, conglomerate, with " 



minute, dark green particles. 



Some of the blocks on the shore, apparently fallen from this 

 bed, consist of close-grained splintery limestone, somewhat ^ 

 sparry, including minute dark grains, disseminated in small 

 proportion. They afford excellent specimens of the * Kentish 

 •rag' 



b. Sand, including concretions of chert ; about 



Feet. In. Feet. In. 



I about 

 J 10 



about 

 2 



> to 



c. Stone. Loosely concreted conglomerate, including shells, effer- ] about 

 vescing copiously ; when decomposed looks like mortar 



effer- 1 



2 



about 



2 



3. Several courses of sand and concretional stone ; 



a. Sand 9 i 



b. Thin course of concretional cherty stone, nearly continuous. ") q 4 I 



The chert passes into chalcedony, and the spongy portions V to 1 

 include shells J 6 



c. Sand, with spongy concretional stone, approaching to that of -i 



Blackdown, but looser / 



d. Sand ? 



e. A bed of siliceous masses, like the stems of Siphoniae ; about . 6 



/. Sand , . ? 



g. Greenish grey concretional stone, in irregular masses ? J 



altogether 

 about 

 >• 8 



about 25 feet. 



(b.) 



4. Greenish grey and yellow sand, including various concretions ; 



a. Sand about 5 or 6 1 



b. Very large concretional nodules, consisting of greenish sand, ] ^ I "^^^ween 



40 



slightly consolidated j j , 



c. Sand, without prominent beds of stone ; about 40 J 50 



Total from 70 to 80 feet. 



Beneath is the plateau of the under-clifF, supporting ponds, and producing 



