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III.—Vertical Tertiaries at Bincombe, Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Rev. O. Fisher
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I have just read the abstract of Mr. Clement Reid's paper to the Geological Society (April 29, 1896) upon the Eocene deposits of Dorset. Many years ago I paid a good deal of attention to these beds, and have many notes upon what I saw. The section which I now send is reduced from my notebook, a section which in my belief has never been seen by any geologist except myself. It was taken when a large pit was open, and the section clear and unmistakable. I copy the words I wrote on the spot. “December 24, 1855. Examined the large gravel-pit recently opened in the Tertiary Eocene beds at Bincombe. A section is given on the last leaf [of the notebook]. The deep cuttings lately made show the beds to be vertical, following the dip of the chalk. The beds have much the character of those at Bournemouth, except that they are much coarser. The place of the large flints with fossils is shown in the section. The manner in which the ends of the vertical beds are bent over, and dragged down the slope of the hill, is particularly well shown.”

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 6 , June 1896 , pp. 246 - 247
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1896

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1 These casts were frequently collected by the Rev. W. Barnes, the Dorsetshire Poet. There were formerly some in the Dorchester Museum. Similar casts occur at Haldon Hill, near Exeter, and also in the neighbourhood of Evershot.