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III.—A Brief Memoir of the Geology of Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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As the sands and clays of the Hastings series lie conformably on the Purbeck Beds, it is probable that the same area which formed the embouchure of the Purbeck river performed still the same office during the Hastings Sand age; but the entirely different character of the deposit shows at least that the soil of the country drained by the latter was different from that which supplied the former; and it is evident also that, in the district under consideration, the motion of the water of the Hastings river was much more rapid, from the abundance of sand, coarse quartz, and gravel with pebbles.

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page 441 note 1 See paper by Mr. W. Carruthers in Geol. Mag., 1865, Vol. II. p. 484, Pl. XIII. g. A.

page 443 note 1 Lyell, Student's Elements of Geology, 1871, p. 238.

page 445 note 1 See a paper On the Formation of the Chesil Bank,” by Bristow, H. W., and Whitaker, W., Geol. Mag. Vol. VI. p. 433 (1869).CrossRefGoogle Scholar Also Coode, J. in Proc. Inst. Ciy. Eng. TOI. xii. p. 520 (1853).Google Scholar

page 446 note 1 When visiting the Isle of Portland in August last in company with Mr. Prestwich, that gentleman pointed out to me undoubted proofs of Glacial action which had hitherto escaped notice.—J. C. M.-P.

page 446 note 2 See paper by Woodward, H. on the Carboniferous and other Old Land Surfaces, Geol. Mag., 1871, Vol. VIII., p. 492.CrossRefGoogle Scholar