Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-wzw2p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-09T15:49:19.861Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On Cycles of Sedimentation in the Eocene Strata of the Anglo-Franco-Belgian Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

L. Dudley Stamp
L. Dudley Stamp
Affiliation:
King's College, London.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Landenian.—The Landenian is represented by the Thanet Sands and Woolwich and Reading Beds. The former seem to correspond to the two lower zones of the French Landenian, whilst the marine Bottom Bed of the Woolwich Series corresponds to the zone of Cyprina scutellaria. The present writer. has given reasons for believing the pebble-bed separating the two to be due to a movement of uplift in the Wealden area.1 In the east of the London district the marine Bottom Bed passes up into clays and marls crowded with estuarine fossils (Woolwich Beds); to the west into unfossiliferous mottled clays and fluviatile sands (Reading Beds). The extensive transgression at the time of the zone of Cyprina scutellaria is noticeable in the London Basin as it is in the Paris and Hampshire Basins.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 58 , Issue 5 , May 1921 , pp. 194 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1921

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 194 note 1 Stamp, and Priest, , “Geology of the Swanscombe Eocene Outlier”: Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxxi, 1920, p. 191.Google Scholar

page 194 note 2 Whitaker, , “On the Western End of the London Basin”: Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xviii, 1862, p. 258.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 195 note 1 Prestwich, , Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. iii, 1847, p. 393.Google Scholar

page 195 note 2 Prestwich (in discussion), ibid., vol. xxxix, 1883, p. 354.

page 195 note 3 White records N. variolarius, op. cit., 1917, p. 270 (Handb. Reg. Geol.).Google Scholar

page 198 note 1 Stamp, , “Note sur la Géologie du Mont Aigu et du Mont Kemmel”: Ann. Soc. géol. Nord, vol. xliv, 1919, p. 115.Google Scholar

page 199 note 1 Compare also Leriche, “Observations sur la Classification des Assises paléocènes et éocènes du Bassin de Paris”: Ann. Soc. géol. Nord, vol. xxxiv, 1905, p. 383.Google Scholar Dollfus, “On the Classification of the Beds of the Paris Basin”: Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxi, 1909, p. 101.Google Scholar Lemoine, Géologie du Bassin de Paris, 1911, p. 198 et.seq.Google Scholar

page 199 note 2 See also Leriche, “Sur la signification des termes Landenien et Thanetien”; Ann. Soc. géol. Nord, vol. xxxiv, 1905, p. 201.Google Scholar