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THE WEALDEN, 
WEALDEN FORMATION. 
1 , WEALD CLAY. 
Characters. 
Oganic Remains. Localities. 
Stiff clay, of various shades of blue and 
brown ; with subordinate beds of lime-, 
stone and sand ; seplaria. 
Paludinas, Cypris fa- 
ba, Cyclades, bones 
of reptiles rarely ; - 
scales and bones of 
fishes. 
The Wealds of Sus. 
sex, Surrey, and 
Kent; forming the 
vale between the 
Downs and Forest 
Ridge. 
2 . HASTINGS BEDS. 
Hoisted Sand. 
Grey, white, ferruginous, and fawn-co- 
loured sand, and friable sandstone, with 
abundance of small portions of lignite. 
1 Traces of carbonized 
t vegetables. 
Strata of TUgate Forest. 
Sand and friable sandstone, of various ' 
shades of green, yellow, and ferrugi- 
nous ; surface oftentimes deeply fur- 
rowed. 
TUgate sione, very fine compact bluish or 
greenish grey grit, in lenticular masses ; 
surface oftentimes covered with mam- 
millary concretions ; the lower beds fre- 
quently conglomeritic, and containing 
large quartz pebbles. 
Clay os- marl : of a bluish grey colour; 
alternating with sand, sandstone, and 
shale. 
Ferns, stems of vege- 
tables : bones of 
saurian animals, 
birds,turtles,fishes, 
&c. Shells of the 
genera unio. cyctas, 
cyrcna, paludina, 
Sec., lignite, wood. 
Bones, and shells, but 
rarely. 
Ferns ; and stems of 
vegetables. 
Worth Sandstone. 
White and yellow friable sandstone and 
sand. 
Ferns, and arundina- 
ceous plants. Lig- 
nite, &c. 
3 . ASHBURNHAM BEDS. 
'Little Horsted, Uck. 
field, Framfield, 
Bexhill, Chailey, 
Fletching, Bridge 
Park, Tunbridge 
I- Wells, &c. 
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Loxwood, Horsham, 
Tilgate and St. 
Leonard’s forests ; 
^ Chailey, Ore near 
Battel, Hastings, 
&c.. Rye, Winchel. 
sea. 
Tunbridge Wells; 
near Reigate. 
Worth, near Craw- 
ley ; St. Clement’s 
Caves, Hastings, 
&c. 
A series of highly ferruginous sands, al- 
ternating with clay and shale, contain- 
ing ironstone and lignite. 
Shelly limestone, alternating with sand- 
stone, shale, and marl ; andconcretional. 
masses of grit. 
Ferns, and carbonized 
vegetables. 
Cypris. 
Shells of the genera 
cyclas and cyrena ; > 
lignite, carbonized 
vegetables. 
Lower part of Has- 
tings Cliffs ; near 
Buxted ; West 
Hothly, Crawley, 
&c. 
Archer’s Wood, near 
Battel ; Bright- 
ling, Pounceford, 
Burwash, Hurst 
Green, Eason’s 
Green, Etching, 
ham. 
1. WEALD CLAY. 
A tenacious blue clay, containing subordinate 
beds of sandstone and shelly limestone, with layers 
