IN THE ANGLO-PARIS BASIN 33 



are classified with the spathi Subzone, Beds 7-1 1 with the intermedins Subzone. The 

 siltier nature of the sediments of the intermedins Subzone heralds the sequence seen 

 further west at such localities as Winchester (p. 69) , Didcot (p. 63) , and Devizes (p. 60) . 

 The niobe Subzone is probably present in the top of these sediments and possibly in 

 the light grey clay of Bed 12 which can be correlated with the base of Division 4 at 

 Ford Place. A re-examination of the ammonites from Bed 13 indicates that it 

 should be classified with the subdelaruei Subzone as the writer considered possible in 

 1958. 



The presence of higher Middle Albian subzones in the sequence is at present un- 

 certain. Gossling (1929 ; 251) reported, from Spath's determinations of the am- 

 monites found in the Merstham trench, that here the Upper Gault rests directly upon 

 the dentatus Zone. However, Gossling did not give a detailed account of the succes- 

 sion and, moreover, the trench was only 4 feet (1-219 m.) deep. In the Buckland 

 Sand & Silica Co. pit large distorted blocks of pale-grey clay were seen in the super- 

 ficial deposits. These blocks contain orbignyi Subzone fossils and the bed from which 

 they were torn cannot be far to the northward. However, in the foundations of 

 Wray Common County Primary School at the N. end of Kendal Close, Reigate 

 (TQ 26975092), the ' lautus Zone nodule bed ' was located. The fauna obtained 

 indicated that its character was closely comparable to that of Division 6 in the 

 Sevenoaks area. 



(vi) BUCKLAND TO UPPER BEEDING (text-fig. 14) 



There is very little information available at the outcrop between Buckland and 

 Shere, a distance of io| miles, except that given by Dines & Edmunds (1933). The 

 sections exposed during the cutting of the Shere By- Pass road have been described 

 by the writer (Owen 1963a). There is very little doubt that the outcrop here is 

 affected by a strike fault with a substantial northerly throw as Kirkaldy concluded 

 (1958 ; 18). The structure illustrated by the author (1963a ; 41, text-fig. 1), the 

 greatly attenuated width of the outcrop, the far greater thickness of the Gault in the 

 West Clandon Waterworks boring, and the sequence at Albury (Edmunds in Dines & 

 Edmunds 1929 ; 41-2) all support the presence of such a fault. The true degree of 

 representation in the Lower Gault in this area is, therefore, uncertain, and will not 

 be determinable until a cored borehole is drilled to the north of the disturbed ground. 



The notable feature in the lower part of the Lower Gault between Shere and 

 Shalford is the development of the eodentatus and lyelli Subzones (Owen 1963a, 

 Wright & Wright 1948). Whether this development continues west to Whiteacre 

 Copse on the Guildford-Godalming By-Pass road is unknown (Lea 1932 ; 320-1 ; 

 Owen 1963a ; 50). There is a similar dearth of information further west. However 

 in the Institute of Geological Sciences there is a small suite of specimens from the 

 Gault exposed in a gravel pit off the Farnham to Runfold road at about 1 mile ENE. 

 of Farnham and immediately W. of the railway bridge (SU 85854755) GSM. 

 He 2337-45, which indicates the presence of lautus Zone sediments in this area. 



The sections at Wrecclesham, Selborne, and Nyewood, have all been described by 

 the writer (Owen 1963a). Text-fig. 14 shows that the sequence in the spathi Subzone 



