4. on the Section Between BLACK-GANG-CHINE and Arher- FIELD POINT
190 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. l~Iaidstone .function of the South-Eastern Railway), seem to be identical with the marine clays found at Hythe and at Atherfield in the Isle of Wight. He adds, " There is also a bed of stone, not a continuous bed, but in concretionary masses, just above the junction, from which I obtained fossils, and which, I consider, re- presents the Atherfield rocks. This bed is also similar to the blocks taken from the cutting in the vicinity of Red Hill, near Reigate." He adds, that the same junction can be traced from the Teston Cutting in the direction of Maidstone, to near the Farley Cutting through the Kentish Rag. The junction of the Wealden and greensand clays is at the bottom of the valley, near the banks of the river Medway. 4. On the Section between BLACK-GANG-CHINE and ArHER- FIELD POINT. By CAPT. L. L. B. IBBETSON, and PROF. EDW. FORBES, F.R.S. THE accompanying Table exhibits the succession of strata pre- sented in ascending order from the Wealden to the top of the Upper Green Sand in the Isle of Wight between Atherfield Point and St. Catherine's Down. The measurements of the upper portion were ascertained by trigonometrical survey, by Capt. Ibbetson, during the years 1833---38, those of the lower portion during the winter of 1842-3. The following observations refer to that portion of the section which includes the Lower Green Sand strata, visited by Capt. Ibbetson and Prof. Forbes in March~ 1844. Between the Gault, as seen near Black-Gang-Chine, and the Wealden at Atherfield Point, there are sixty-three distinct strata, the total thickness of which is 843 feet.
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