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V.—Some Geological Notes on the Neighbourhood of Newbury, Berks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. Rupert Jones
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The Oyster-bed (Ostrea Bellovacina) in the lowest part of the “Woolwich-and-Reading” series is well known as constituting an interesting horizon in the Lower Eocene formation; but, as it is not throughout persistent in the range of this group of strata, every instance of its occurrence is worth recording. It is well known in Berkshire at Clay Hill, Shaw, about a mile N.E. of Newbury; and it occurs further westward near Hungerford (Prestwich, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. x. pp. 85 and 87). We now know of its occurrence to the South of Newbury, from the works of the new railway intended to connect Newbury and Southampton.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , March 1884 , pp. 122 - 123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1884

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page 122 note 1 John Drysdale, Esq., C.E., obligingly aided the writer in taking these notes.

page 122 note 2 In this gravel the writer found a watenvorn block of flint-conglomerate, similar to the “Hertfordshire Puddingstone.” Some observations on this great river-gravel of the Kennet are recorded in the “Memoirs of the Geological Survey,” Explanation of Sheet 12, 1862, p. 46; and “the green sands of the Woolwich-and-Reading beds” are mentioned as having been noticed under this gravel at the Cemetery on the southern side of Newbury, one mile east of the railway-well above mentioned. There are other green sands near the Railway Station on tne Greenham side of the town, not far off, but their relationship is not clearly seen.