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VII.—The Extent of the Hempstead Beds in the Isle of Wight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Clement Reid
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Owing to the impossibility of making an accurate Survey of many of the flatter and Drift-covered portions of England, in the absence of sections, the light boring tools so extensively used by the Geological Survey of Belgium have been experimentally tried during the last few months in the Isle of Wight. The results arrived at are of so much interest that the Director has requested me to draw up this preliminary notice.

The Hempstead Beds, which were thought to be confined to the outlier at Hempstead Cliff and another of unknown extent in Parkhurst Forest, prove to be much more important, indeed they occupy about half the Tertiary area of the Isle of Wight.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 11 , November 1887 , pp. 510 - 511
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1887

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3 Full details will be given in the new editions of Mr. Bristow's “Geology of the Isle of Wight,” and of the Geological Map—which, however, cannot appear for some months.