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V.—Note on an Undescribed Area of Lower Greensand or Vectian in Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. J. Jukes-Browne
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Until recently no outcrop of the Vectian or Lower Greensand was known to occur between Lulworth on the coast of Dorset and the neighbourhood of Devizes in Wiltshire. It was supposed that, with the exception of a small area of Wealden in the Vale of Wardour, the whole of the Lower Cretaceous Series in Dorset and South Wilts was concealed and buried beneath the overlapping Upper Cretaceous strata. A recent examination of this district however has revealed two areas where the Vectian sands emerge from beneath the Gault. One of these has already been indicated in the pages of the Geological Magazine; the other is the subject of the present communication.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 10 , October 1891 , pp. 456 - 458
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1891

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page 456 note 1 The Lower Cretaceous Series in the Vale of Wardour, by Jukes-Browne, A. J. and Andrews, W. R., Geol. Mag. for July, 1891, p. 292Google Scholar.