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III.—The Base of the Gault in Eastern England

  • A.M. Davies
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In a paper published in this MagazineinMarch, 1895, Dr. J. W.Gregory, incidentally discussing the exact age of the base of the Gault Clay, wrote:“Hoplites interruptus seems restrictedin[Eastern] England to the Folkestone area and the Eed Chalk.” Although some of his conclusions on that point were modified later, the general statement quoted above, with the qualification indicated by the bracketed word ‘Eastern,’ does not seem to have been challenged. Having myself found H. interrnplus at the base of the Gault at several places in Eastern England, I have been led to look up previous records, with the result that I am convinced that the zone of H. interruptus is represented in the lowest beds of the Gault Clay over a large part of that area.

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page 159 note 1 Fossils from Lower Greensand of Great Chart”: Geol. Mag., Dec. IV, Vol. II, p. 97.

page 159 note 2 Ibid., pp. 187–9.

page 160 note 1 Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xv, p. 184.

page 161 note 1 “Handbook of Historical Geology,” p. 412.

page 161 note 2 Reid & Strahan, “Geology of the Isle of Wight.”

page 161 note 3 Catalogue of Fossils from the Cretaceous Beds of Berkshire, in the Collection of Davey, E.C., F.G.S.“ (Wantage, 1877).

page 162 note 1 Loc. cit., p.101.

page 162 note 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxx, p. 342.

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