IN THE ANGLO-PARIS BASIN 



4i 



(1-321 m.), from the top of 6 (iv) have yielded ammonites suggesting a correlation 

 with the basal 2 inches (0-051 m.) of Bed V at Folkestone. 



nitidus Subzone 



A typical nitidus Subzone fauna has been obtained from 6 (v) (Owen 1963a, 46) 

 preserved in a manner identical to that of Bed V at Folkestone. No diagnostic 

 ammonites were found by the author in 6 (vi) or (vii) and it is still uncertain whether 

 these sediments are of nitidus or daviesi Subzone age. 



? daviesi Subzone 



In 1963, the author stated that the daviesi Subzone was absent. However, a few 

 phosphatic nodules from the top of 6 (vii) have yielded ammonites including Ana- 

 hoplites planus and Euhoplites truncatus together with /. concentricus. These occur 

 immediately below the basal cristatum nodule bed at the base of Division 7. In the 

 absence of Anahoplites daviesi it is not yet possible to determine whether these 

 deposits represent this Subzone or not. 



(viii) HASSOCKS TO EASTBOURNE 



The only section in the Lower Gault now available east of Small Dole is to be seen 

 above the Folkestone Beds in Messrs Hudsons Ltd's pit at Hassocks (text-fig. 17). 



Bed 



L 1 1 h o I o g y 



White to buff spherical septarlan phosphatic nodules in weathered 

 gray clay. A scattered Una occurs at the base and a scattered 

 line 9 Inches above It. 



Dank grey clay with patches of glauconltic sand which become less 

 marked upwards. The clay Is well bedded and slightly shaly. 



Grey coarsely sandy highly argillaceous glauconltic loam. 



Loam streaked orange and greyish with grey clay content 

 increasing upwards and passing down into brownish loam which tills 

 hollows in the hgri helow. . 



1 Streaked ferruginous sand and iron pan guttered and contorted. 



Folkestone Beds 



3- 



1- 1 



7 

 8 9 

 5 9 

 3 10 



Fig. 17. Basal Gault and Gault-Lower Greensand junction beds at Hudsons Ltd's Hudsons 

 Red Sand pit, 1400 yds W. of Hassocks railway station and 350 yds S. of the B 21 16 road, 

 Hurstpierpoint, Sussex (TQ 29121552). 



