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I.—The Sculpturings of the Chalk Downs of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

The aim of this paper is to offer an explanation of the phenomena intimately related to the sculpturings of the Chalk Downs in the district under review, namely:—

(1)The Dry Chalk Valleys.

(2)The River System of the Wealden area, as far as it relates to the Chalk Downs.

(3)Incidentally, the Denudation of the Wealden area.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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Footnotes

1

This paper is substantially the same as that communicated to the Geological Society of London, April 7, 1909, certain revisions having been made subsequently. A short abstract only was printed in the Q.J.G.S., vol. lxv, pp. 208–9.

References

page 51 note 1 See a paper On the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Seaford”, by Elsden, J. V.: Q.J.G.S., vol. lxv, pp. 442–61.Google Scholar

page 52 note 1 In Scepticism in Geology (pp. 44–5), William Longman suggested that “the Chalk escarpments may have been parted asunder like the sinews of a shoulder of mutton on the application of a knife”; and SirHoworth, Henry in Ice or Water, vol. i, p. 525Google Scholar, holds that the Chalk beds were dragged apart over the softer under-lying strata for a distance of 25 miles. To my mind such an extended movement of the Chalk seems unlikely.

page 53 note 1 Q.J.G.S., vol. xlvii, pl. viiGoogle Scholar. See also Jukes-Browne, Ibid., vol. lxii, p. 132.

page 54 note 1 Q.J.G.S., vol. xliii, pp. 364–73.Google Scholar

page 55 note 1 See Young, G. W., Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1905, vol. xix, p. 191.Google Scholar

page 56 note 1 Q.J.G.S., vol. lxv, pp. 442–61.Google Scholar

page 57 note 1 On this subject see remarks by Wood, S. V., jun., Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxviii, p. 718.Google Scholar

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