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VIII.—On a Sandy Ironstone Occurring above the Chalk at Capel, Near Dover

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Frank Rutley
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Between Dover and Folkestone there are certain deposits of ferruginous sandstone or sandy ironstone, well known to geologists, and somewhat doubtfully referred to some portion of the crag. They may be the equivalents of the Lenham Beds, which are assumed to be the lower part of the Coralline crag, and which have been correlated with the Diestian Beds of Belgium. This view is entertained by Prof. Prestwich, Mr. Clement Reid, and others, and is based upon palæontological evidence (chiefly from Lenham, near Maidstone), from which locality Mr. Reid procured casts of the following fossils:

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , May 1895 , pp. 227 - 229
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1895

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References

page 227 note 1 The Pliocene Deposits of Britain, 1890, p. 42.Google Scholar

page 228 note 1 Anniversary Address, Geol. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 34.Google Scholar

page 228 note 2 Jukes' “School Manual of Geology,” 4th edition, edited by A. J. Jukes-Browne, p. 334.