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II.—On the Surface-Geology, Denudation, and “Form of the Ground” of Belgium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. M. Jenkins
H. M. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society.
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The review of my “Report on the Agriculture of Belgium,” which appeared in the last number of the GeologicalMagazine, illustrated by a reprint of the map which originally accompanied it in the “Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society” (2nd series, vol. vi., part 1), has induced me to offer some further remarks on the surface-geology of that kingdom while the subject is still fresh in the recollection of the readers of this Magazine.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 71 , May 1870 , pp. 199 - 203
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1870

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References

page 202 note 1 Quart. Journal Geol. Soc, vol. xxii., p. 250.

page 202 note 2 A somewhat similar view of another region has been proposed by Mr. G. A. Lebour to explain the surface-features of western Brittany. (See Geol. Mag. Vol. VI. 1869, p. 442.)—Edit.

page 202 note 3 May we not regard the far greater diversity (i.e. the more denuded character) of the surface covered by the Limon de Hesbaye than of the Campine sand region as an additional piece of evidence in favour of the previous denudation of the former region. The eminences in the loamy region are numerous, and not unfrequently rise to a height of from 300 to 400 feet above the neighbouring valleys, while in the Campine sand district a difference of level of 50 feet cannot be seen except in the extreme east—the true Campine.