THE GEOLOGIST 



JUNE, 1860. 



GEOLOGICAL L 0 C A L I T I E S. — NO. I. 

 FOLKESTONE. 

 By S. J. Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A. 



(Gontinued from jp age 131. J 



Where now is that great funereal mass ? Where now that two 

 thousand feet of ocean mud and sand ? All round the rim of the 

 great Wealden area the basset-edges of that thick mass crop out, 

 bearing on their cliff-like downs patches of red loam, gravel and 

 round flint-pebbles — remnants that mark the ravages of time and 

 physical forces upon the rock-beds of yet another age, in which that 

 great Cretaceous mass was slowly raised, bearing as it were on its 

 shoulders the ever-forming ooze, filled with the relics of other inter- 

 vening forms of life that reigned in that vast interval between the 

 Secondary period and our own. 



The story, then, is not half told ; and we must not pause at the 

 simple piling by the tides and sea-currents of the more than thou- 

 sand feet of greensand, gault, and chalk, and the Tertiary sands and 

 clays on these, but we must read on in the record-book that Nature 

 keeps, and glean other facts and other scenes from its stony pages. 



Slowly was the great Cretaceous mass heaved by some internal 

 power into a giant dome, some forty miles across. Slowly as the 

 intumescence of this vast mound increased and raised the upper 

 beds, the waves of the ever-active sea cut them into cliffs, and sliced 

 VOL. III. 2 c 



