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VI.—The Rock of the Cambridge Greensand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Harry Seeley
Affiliation:
Woodwardian Museum,Cambridge.

Extract

Examining the Cambridge sands, fresh from a remembrance of the Undercliff and the grand developement of the cherty rock of the Upper Greensand in Southern sections, perhaps its most marvellous character is that here it no longer makes a feature in the land, but has dwindled away to barely a foot in thickness, and yet is to be traced through several counties. Blending insensibly into the chalk, resembling in structure beds that sometimes occur in the Gault, it appears but as a parting seam between those deposits. Yet so soon as Dr. Fitton made clear the sequence of the Cretaceous beds, Professor Sedgwick recognised in the film of black nodules, glauconite and chalky marl, the analogue of the sands of the Vale of Wardour and the Isle of Wight.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1866

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References

page 302 note 1 See Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 03, 1866, on Torynorvinus, etc;Google Scholar Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 11 1864, on Hunstanton Red Rock;Google Scholar Geol. Mag., Vol. II., p. 262, Sequences of Rocks and Fossils;Google Scholar Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, 10 1864, Fossils of Red Rock.Google Scholar

page 303 note 1 See Geol. Mag., Vol. II., p. 529.Google Scholar

page 306 note 1 Notes on some some of the Mollusca and Echinoderms of the Upper Greensand will be found in the Annals of Natural History for February, April, and July, 1861, and October, 1865. And on the Pterodactylas, for February, 1865, and May. 1866.Google Scholar