Lower chalk—Hampshire!. 
61 
ft. in. 
Soil - - - -----20 
Greyish (wet) rather marly chalk - - - - ■* -130 
Greyish rather marly chalk, mottled with large patches of 
bluish-grey -. - 8 0 
Hard grey sandy chalk, Terebratula bijilicata - - - 2 0 
Softer chalk, mottled with large patches of bluish-grey - - 6 0 
Hard grey chalk, Am. [ Acanthoceras] rotomagensis - - 1 0 
Bluish-grey marly chalk, passing down to greyer chalk - - 4 0 
Grey firm chalk slightly mottled with bluish-grey - - 4 0 
Massive firm marly chalk mottled with large patches of 
bluish-grey - - --150 
55 0 
In the quarry-like cuttings by the side of the road which leads 
from Petersfield to Portsmouth between War Down and Butser 
Hill, the upper part of this zone is just seen. The chalk is bluish- 
grey in colour and hard and soft layers alternate, small Brachiopods 
were common, and there were casts of Ammonites (JAm. [Schl.] 
varians and Am. [ Acanth .] Mantelli). 
Zone of Holaster subglobosus. 
Progressing round the margin of the Weald from Surrey through 
Hampshire, the first good section noticed by Mr, Hill in the upper 
part of the Lower Chalk was in a quarry about a quarter of a mile 
south of Alton station. The basal 10 or 12 feet of this quarry 
is in grey chalk, which passes up to hard white chalk, of this some 
35 feet is exposed, but it was in a broken-up, rubbly condition, 
and no detailed section was taken. Immediately above the main 
face shallow workings recently opened exposed 10 or 12 feet more 
hard white chalk, but nothing like the Belemnite Maris was 
seen ; though the late Mr. W. Curtis seems to have seen these 
marls somewhere near Alton (see p. 57). 
In a small disused roadside quarry about one-third of a mile S.S.E 
of Alton Station, and again in a quarry half a mile N.N.E. of Far- 
ringdon, a grey gritty chalk somewhat like Totternhoe Stone was 
exposed, in which Pecten orbicularis , Kingena lima, and Rhyn- 
chonella grasiana were common, but there were no Ammonites. 
In a disused quarry half a mile west of Hawkley Church, near 
where some talus had been cleared away, a similar gritty chalk 
was exposed, and large blocks of it lay about the quarry floor. Mr. 
Hill found the same fossils with the addition of Pecten elongatns 
TerebratuMna striata and Trochus Buvignieri; there were also 
impressions of an Ammonite. 
This gritty bed appears to be about 60 to 65 feet below the Mel- 
bourn Rock. In the same quarry at the top of the talus slope 
about 6 feet of rather hard whitish chalk was exposed. 
It is stated by Dr. Barrois that the junction of the zone of Holaster 
subglobosus with the overlying zone of Inoceramus mytiloides was 
visible in a quarry at Chewton, south of Alton, but whether this 
is the pit at Southfield Farm or at some other opening we are 
unable to say. 
