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V.—The zone of Offaster Pilula in the South English Chalk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In the year 1911 Mr. Griffith and I proposed to recognize in Hants three divisions of the Chalk intervening between the zones of Marsupites testudinarius and Belemnitella mucronata, and then known as the zone of Actinocamax quadratus. These divisions we were not jointly prepared to treat as more than subzonal. In the year 1912 I defined the lower and middle divisions very closely and described them in detail, and demonstrated that the upper boundary of the middle division was a strongly marked break. This break I regarded as of zonal importance, and I therefore separated the lower and middle divisions from the upper as subzonal divisions of a new zone of Offaster pilula. I was also able to say that the features of the new zone in Hants were exactly reproduced in the Sussex cliffs and to cite as presumptive evidence that it was equally recognizable in Wiltshire a statement by Dr. Blackmore that the divisions proposed in 1911 held good round Salisbury. The object of this paper is to trace the new zone in detail in the more accessible cliff sections of the old zone of A. quadratus in the South of England.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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References

page 359 note 1 The Zones of the Chalk in Hants, London, Dulau & Co., 1911.

page 359 note 2 The Stratigraphy of the Chalk of Hants, London, Dulau & Co., 1912.

page 360 note 1 The mystery surrounding the origin of this most useful varietal name has not been cleared up by Mr. Woods’ recent monograph. It probably originated with Dr. Blackmore.

page 366 note 1 “The proposed recognition of two stages in the Upper Chalk”: Geol. Mag., February, 1913, p. 61.

page 367 note 1 W. K. Spencer, “The Evolution of the Cretaceous Asteroidea”: Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., ser. B, vol. cciv, p. 112.

page 366 note 2 W. K. Spencer, op. cit., p. 218.

page 368 note 1 The Stratigraphy of the Chalk of Hants, p. 11.