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SUPERPOSITION OF THE STRATA 
{Flumalilc Deposits.) 
Formations. 
Subdivisions and Mi- Organic Remains, Obscrva- 
neralogical C/ta- «> 
racters. 
Localities. 
Wealden 
Foiimation. 
Weald Clay. 
Abound with the remains of | 
Scptaria of argilla- f Cypris faba j alsoPaludina?, _ 
ceous ironstone, f Cyrenae, and scales of ' 
j fishes. ( 
Blue clay with beds > Viviparoe and Paludinse, Cy- _ 
of Sussex marble. J pris faba, bones of saurians. ^ 
Hastings. Sands 
AND Clays. 
Fawn-coloured sand ~l 
and friable sand- |- 
stone. . ' 
' Sand and 
friable 
sandstone 
Compact 
calcifer- 
ous sand- 
stone. 
(Tit gate 
grit.) 
Conglome- 
ritic sand- 
stone. 
Blue clay 
or marl. 
Wliite sand, friable 
sandstone grit, &c. 
alternating with 
clay, &c. 
Strata of 
Tilgate 
Forest. 
Lignite ; imperfect remains 
of ferns. 
Teeth and bones of Megalo. 
saurus, Iguanodon, Plesio- 
saurus, and Crocodile ; tur- 
tles, birds, fishes ; arbores- - 
cent ferns and palms, 
shells of the genera Unio, 
Paludina, Cyrena, &c. 
Several species of fern ; lig- 
nite ; the sandstone con- 
tains immense quantites of ■ 
bivalves, Cyrems, and Cy- 
clades. 
Resting - Oak - Hill, 
near Cooksbridge, 
Harting Combe, 
&c. 
Weald of Sussex, 
from Laughton to 
near Petworth. 
Boxhill, Horsted, 
Fletching, Bridge 
Park. 
Hastings, Ore, Chai. 
ley, 'I'ilgate Forest, 
Horsham, Lox- 
wood, &c. 
Rye, Winchelsea, 
Hastings, East 
Grinstead, Worth, 
Crawley,Tunbridge 
Wells, &c. 
Ashburniiam Beds. 
Bluish grey lime- " 
stone, alternating 
with blue clay, and 
sandstone shale. 
The lowermost 
strata, in Sussex, 
contain beds of the 
Tit gate grit. 
Immense qu.antities of the 
casts of bivalve shells, or 
Cyclades and Cyreme, Lig- 
nite, and carbonised vege- 
tables, bones of saurians. 
■ Archer’s Wood, near 
Battel; Brightling, 
near Burwash ; 
I Pounceford, Hurst- 
green, Rotherficld, 
I)arvcl’8Wood,&c. 
The general inclination of the beds in Sussex is 
towards the south-east, consequently, a line drawn 
from the coast, through the interior of the country, 
would pass over the basseting edges of the strata 
in regular succession. On tlie surface the occur- 
rence of a new formation is indicated by the inter- 
vention of a rivulet or valley, by a difference in the 
physical ajq^earance of the country, and a cor- 
responding change in the nature of the soil and its 
productions. 
