Note 81 — TERTIARY PERIOD.
Reading edition
Lyell’s “Elements of Geology,” p. 187.
[82] This limestone belongs to the Bembridge beds, and forms part of the Fluvio-marine series. See “Survey Memoir on the Geology of the Isle of Wight,” by H. W. Bristow.
[83] Similar beds of Miliolite limestone are found in the Middle Bagshot beds on the coast of Sussex, off Selsey—the only instance in England of the occurrence of such calcareous deposits of Middle Eocene age.—H. W. B.
[84] “Elements of Geology,” p. 292.
[85] “Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. The Geology of Middlesex, &c.;” by W. Whitaker, p. 9.
[86] Prestwich. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. x., p. 448.
[87] Detailed sections of the whole of the Tertiary strata of the Isle of Wight have been constructed by Mr. H. W. Bristow from actual measurement of the beds in their regular order of succession, as displayed at Hempstead, Whitecliff Bay, Colwell and Tolland’s Bays, Headon Hill, and Alum Bay. These sections, published by the Geological Survey of Great Britain, show the thickness, mineral character, and organic remains found in each stratum, and are accompanied by a pamphlet in explanation.
[88] “Elements of Geology,” p. 300.
[89] Ibid., p. 305.
[90] Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc., vol. vii., p. 89.
[91] See Bristow’s “Glossary of Mineralogy,” p. 11.
[92] “Pallas’s Voyage,” vol. iv., pp. 130-134.
[93] “Commentarii Academiæ Petersburgicæ,” p. 3.
[94] Dr. James Murie, Geological Magazine, vol. viii., p. 438.
[95] Edward Forbes in “Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain,” vol. i., p. 336.
[96] For full information on these deposits the reader is referred to the “Memoirs on the Structure of the Crag-beds of Norfolk and Suffolk,” by J. Prestwich, F.R.S., in the Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvii., pp. 115, 325, and 452 (1871). Also to the many Papers by the Messrs. Searles Wood published in the Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc., the Ann. Nat. Hist., the Phil. Mag., &c.
[97] Lyell’s “Elements of Geology,” p. 203.