Or SOME DEEP BOPvIXGS IN KENT. 



201 



belong to the Hastings Beds. To say that they belong to the Ash- 

 down Series, the lowest division of these, might be rash, as like beds 

 occur more or less throughout ; but at any rate there is a great pro- 

 bability that they may do so. 



With the fresh information acquired both from specimens and 

 from notes, for which, in both cases, I have to thank Mr. E. D. 

 Batchelor, the well-sinker, I am enabled to give the following much 

 fuller account of the beds below the Chalk in this important 

 section : — 



Thickness 

 in feet. 



To base of Chalk. Specimen of clayey chalk at 630 feet 



' f Gault. Specimens, grey sandy clay at 

 721 ; grey sandy clay with green 

 grains at 800 (both calcareous) ; 

 light-greenish sandy clay or clayey 

 sand at 813 ; phosphatic nodules, 

 depth not marked. At the site there 

 is plenty of the ordinary dark grey 

 clay, sometimes with green grains, 

 and phosphatic nodules 138 



Gault, 143 feet, h 



Lower Green- 

 sand. The lower 

 part (and pro--< 

 bably the whole) 

 Sand gate Beds. 



Rocky dead green sand 1 



Dead green sand 2 



^ Hard boulder-rock (? nodules) 2 



(Dead green sand. Specimens, green 

 clayey sand at 822 ; very fine-grained 

 greenish clayey sand at 826 ; fine 

 greenish-grey clayey sand, or sandy 

 clay, at 831 ; a set of fine-grained 

 grey or brownish-grey sandy clays or 

 clayey sands, at 838, 840, 841, 844, 

 845, 847, and 848, compact and exactly 

 like the specimens from the Chatham 



\ boring (932 to 943 feet) 31 



''Black sand and clay. Specimens, 

 brownish-grey clay, rather sandy, at 

 856 and 858 ; brownish and grey clay 



at 862 13 



Brown Clay. Specimens, brownish-grey, 

 rather sandy clay at 864 ; grey and 

 brown clay, with specks of pale very 

 fine sand ; brown and brownish-grey 

 clay at 875 ; grey clay, with pale 

 very fine sandy specks {not chalky, 

 as was thought from the small speci- 

 men first seen) 17 



Dark sand and clay. Specimens, brown 

 and grey clay, one slightly sandy, the 

 other with pale specks (as above) . . . 

 Rock. All broken up, no specimen got. 

 [Below this the account differs from 



that published before.] ^ 



Light-brown clay. Specimens, brown 

 and grey clay at 882 ; brown clay at 

 884 ; grey clay at 885 ; grey and 

 brown clay at 886 ; brown clay, and 

 \ grey clay with specks of pale fine 

 sand, at 888 ; grey clay at 890 (rather 



sandy) and 893 13 



Q. J. G. S. No. 170. 



Wealden. 

 Probably 

 Hastings Beds, 

 82 feet. 



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