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Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Geological Society of London
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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LOGICAL SOCIETY. gravel and underlying light yellow siliceous sands are again exhi-bited. The shingle-bed is here wanting; and the sand-bed *, whichis on a rather lower level than at the first pit, is still withouttraces of shells. I also found small sandpits in a wood at the cornerof two roads between Hungerdown and Eartham, and again nearBoxgrove Common, and thence traces of the same sands are apparentat intervals as far as Goodwood. At the entrance to the Park thereis a large sandpit in a small copse by the road-side. My attentionwas first directed to this very interesting section by Mr. H. W. Bris-tow. The sands are here so fine and so regularly stratified as tolook more like some Older Tertiary sands rather than any of ourhitherto known Post-pliocene beds. This pit is 6; miles distantin a straight line from the nearest part of the present coast. Thefollowing sketch represents its chief features. Pig. 3.—Waterheach Sandpit at the S.E. corner of Goodwood FarTc, > * _ J> i a
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..^■.-^S-JM.XX:-.^-..-^ T.-.^-J^KaS^- a. Bright ferruginous clay, full of large and small angular flints; furrowed and worn into the underlying bed 2 to 6 feet. b. Whitish chalk-rubble with irregular seams and layers of small angular fragments of flint and small gravel 8tol0 feet. c. Yerj fine Sght-coloured and slightly micaceous sand, with patches of shell-sand, and a few subordinate layers of thin,very hard, rough, tabular sandstone, and a few rare chalk-boulders. Some shells, in a very friable condition, areirregularly dispersed through the sand 14 feet. The upper drift a is like that at the Avisford pit, but the bedof shore-shingle is wanting here. We find, on the contrary, underthe ferruginous clay-drift, and deeply indented by it, a roughly-stratified white drift of chalk and flint-rubble, b, like that imme- * I am informed by Mr. Martin, of Pulborough, that similar sands haveformerly been worked at Balls Hutt, on the higli-road near this place. PRESTWICH BRIGHTON BEACH. 219 d

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