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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12683689854).jpg 290 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY April 9 <br> 5« <br> 22 <br> 5 <br> o <br> «0 <br> H <br> Cliff End <br> o <br> OS <br> Fault <br> Hook's Point ' <br> Fairlee Cliff - <br> 60 <br> Lee Ness <br> Lovers' Seat <br> Covers <br> Eaglesboume ¢ <br> East Cliff <br> gs <br> Hastings <br> stone throughout; in some places the <br> ironstone dies out and leaves the shale as <br> the sole representative of the stratum ; <br> in others the shale passes into iron the <br> band becoming ferruginous in its entire <br> thickness <br> The strata n of the sectional sketch <br> underlying the shale and ironstone are <br> conformable to them and occur in the <br> same irregular undulating lines they <br> are also continuous and at present more <br> or less visible through the entire section <br> with the exception of the neighbourhood <br> of Lee Ness They may be studied also <br> with advantage on the beach under East <br> Cliff particularly on the east of Eagles- <br> bourne where they occur in the following <br> descending order ” <br> 1st A band of sandstone ; about <br> 4 feet thick <br> 2nd Slate-coloured compact clay ; <br> 7 feet thick <br> 3rd Light-coloured clay ; 4 feet <br> thick <br> 4th Dark clay ; thickness unknown <br> At Cliff End these beds have been so <br> far removed from their original position <br> and as it were are so thrown over on <br> their sides that the present surface of <br> the shore is formed of their edges or by <br> a section transverse to the plane of stra- <br> tification <br> At a distance of nearly 2000 yards to <br> the east of the Lovers' Seat several hun- <br> dred square yards of the upper surface <br> of the sandstone or superior member of <br> this subgroup are exposed and form the <br> promontory or projection known as Lee <br> Ness Point the preservation of which <br> may be attributed to the greater hardness <br> and durability as well as the peculiar po- <br> sition of the upper members of this sub- <br> group On the east of Lee Ness these <br> strata increase considerably in thickness ; <br> the clays below the sandstone which is <br> here about 9 feet thick being intersected <br> by arenaceous deposits and the band of <br> sandstone separated from the shale and <br> ironstone above by layers of clay which <br> gradually diminish in thickness to the 35338743 109655 51125 Page 290 Text v 12 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338743 1856 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 12 1856 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35338743 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338743 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12683689854 2015-08-27 11 55 36 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1856 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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