UPPER EOCENE (BARTON AND UPPER BAGSHOT FORMATIONS). 597 



altered and appear of a whity 

 and ochreous colour, very sandy, 

 and without fossils, except some 

 layers of Paludina quite at the 

 base. The Lignite Beds them- 

 selves were measured at Long 

 Mead End. The beds appear to 

 be very variable, as the detailed 

 measurements differ considerably 

 from those previously made, 

 though the principal beds re- 

 main as land-marks. The thick- 

 nesses have been variously re- 

 corded : — Marchioness of Hast- 

 ings 78 ft. to 94 ft. 10 in. ; Dr. 

 AVright 64 ft. ; Tawney and 

 Keeping (Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. xxxix. (1883) p. 567) 

 83| ft. 



Section alono the New Line 



FROM BrOCKENHURST TO ChRIST- 

 CHURCH (fig. 5). 



The cuttings for the new line 

 from Brockenhurst to Christ- 

 church present us with a second 

 section in some degree parallel 

 with the coast-line, but several 

 miles inland. Our friend, Mr. 

 George Harris, after checking 

 with us our previous measure- 

 ments along the coast, aided in 

 measuring the entire length of 

 this cutting, and our section is 

 prepared from the notes taken 

 concurrently by each of us on 

 the spot. The new exposure 

 shows that the shell-beds are 

 greatly thickened and maintain 

 their character and position above 

 the Septaria for a long way in- 

 land. It further enables us to 

 check off the thickness of the 

 C^ama-bed, which, though un- 

 fossiliferous, is unchanged as to 

 its matrix*. The Becton -Bunny 

 Beds seem, however, to disappear 



* Mr. Cole has examined this, and 

 reports that it is a bed of Tery angular 

 rather coarse sand with some few green 

 grains. There is some clay with it, 

 but less than would be expected from 

 its general appearance. 















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