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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13205974355).jpg 388 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY May 26 <br> Fig 5 <br> Southampton Dorchester <br> Town railway <br> Southampton Common <br> Artesian well <br> a BracMesham Bay beds middle Bagshot sands 100 feet <br> 1 Green sands ” Venericardia planicosta Turritella sulcifei'a and teeth and bones of <br> fishes c as at Goldsworthy For a fuller list of the organic remains see pages <br> 391 and 392 <br> 2 Dark clayey sands passing down into yellow clays and sands ” Nummulites Icevigatus <br> Sanguinolaria Hollowaysii Cardium porulosum The relative positions of No 1 <br> and 2 is rather uncertain <br> 3 Foliated brown clays The thickness and extent of this bed is extremely uncertain <br> b Light yellow sands more or less argillaceous 100 feet <br> Lower Bagshot sands <br> c London clay upper part of <br> The thickness of the Bracklesham Bay beds has not here been ascertained An approximate <br> one is given The artesian well is about two miles distant from Southampton For particulars of <br> it see Mr Keele's paper Report of the British Association for 1846 p 52 <br> The strata No 14 PI XIV Comp Sec fig 2 above this division <br> at White-CHif Bay are very indifferently exhibited They appear to <br> consist of about 1 00 feet of very sandy light brown and yellow clays <br> with traces of green sands On the opposite coast of Hampshire are <br> strata apparently the same but lighter in colour and more sandy <br> To these beds succeed 200 to 260 feet of brown and yellow sandy <br> clays sands and impure green sands Nos 16 to 19 which are pro- <br> bably the equivalents of the Barton beds ; but all this portion of the <br> section was extremely obscure when I examined it in 1839 and it <br> requires further investigation It is probable that although conti- <br> nuous these 300 to 400 feet of strata including the Barton beds <br> become less argillaceous and more sandy as they proceed northward <br> and they may possibly be represented more or less by the upper divi- <br> sion of the Bagshot sands To this we shall refer again At pre- <br> sent we can only approximate to a determination of equivalents in <br> this last division This partial uncertainty will not however mate- <br> rially affect the main argument <br> The comparative sections PL XIV exhibit the presumed range of <br> the Bracklesham Bay series from the Isle of Wight to the neigh- <br> bourhood of London and show the relative position of the Barton <br> series <br> Organic Remains <br> In examining the evidence afforded by the fossils we will first direct <br> our attention to the fauna alone The flora will be considered apart <br> The lower division of the Bagshot sands appears marked by its <br> negative evidence ; not a single specimen have I been able to obtain <br> in it either in the Isle of Wight or in the London district I have 36933149 113687 51125 Page 388 Text v 3 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36933149 1847 Geological Society of London NameFound Cardium porulosum NameConfirmed Cardium porulosum Lamarck NameFound Icevigatus NameFound Nummulites NameConfirmed Nummulites EOLID 6817785 NameBankID 3399048 NameFound Sanguinolaria NameConfirmed Sanguinolaria EOLID 62822 NameBankID 2693498 NameFound Turritella NameConfirmed Turritella EOLID 52187 NameBankID 2683895 NameFound Venericardia planicosta NameConfirmed Venericardia planicosta NameBankID 5747432 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 3 1847 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36933149 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36933149 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-17 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13205974355 2015-08-26 12 54 16 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1847 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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