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On an Inverted Mass of Upper Cretaceous Strata near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire; and on an Overlap of the Upper Gault in that Neighbourhood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. L. Kitchin  and
J. Pringle
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WE owe to Mr. Lamplugh a description of the lowest beds of the Gault and their junction with the Lower Greensand, as seen in sand-pits on the south side of Leighton Buzzard. Mr. Lamplugh proved the presence of the fauna of the mammillatus zone and found that the fossils preserved in the gritty phosphatic nodules of the lowest bed above the false-bedded sands include Douvilleiceras mammillatum (Schloth.) and the characteristic Desmoceras usually associated with it.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , February 1920 , pp. 52 - 62
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1920

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page 52 note 1 Lamplugh, G. W., “Report of an Excursion to Leighton Buzzard”: Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxvi, pt. v, 1915, p. 310.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 52 note 12 Specimens of the Desmoceras were submitted to one of the present writers and were identified by him; but he is not responsible for the name under which they were cited in Mr. Lamplugh's report (op. cit., p. 310). For a further account of the species see Jukes-Browne, A. J., The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, vol. i, “The Gault and Upper Greensand of England” (Mem. Geol. Surv.), 1900, p. 443Google Scholar; also Lamplugh, G. W. & Kitchin, F. L., On the Mesozoic Rocks in some of the Coal Explorations in Kent (Mem. Geol. Surv.), 1911, p. 100.Google Scholar

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page 55 note 1 While working at Billington Crossing we estimated that the yield of ammonite specimens in relation to the number of nodules broken open is considerably less than 1 per cent.

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