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The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight

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An accessible, illustrated guide that reads the island's rock record to explain how its varied strata, fossils, and coastal sections reveal past environments. Beginning with methods of geological observation, it surveys local structure and major rock groups—the Wealden, Lower Greensand, Gault, Upper Greensand, and Chalk—then treats Tertiary deposits (Eocene and Oligocene), Pleistocene glacial influences, river evolution and the processes that isolated the island, and traces human interaction with the landscape. Fossil plates, diagrams, and photographs support explanations of stratigraphy, paleontology, and scenery.



Bracklesham,
,


Brading Harbour,
,


Bronze age,


Brook,


Building Stone,
,



Carstone,
,


Chalcedony,
,
,


Chale,


Chalk, divisions of,
,
,

  —      Marl,

  —      Rock,


Chalybeate Springs,


Chert,


Chloritic Marl,


Climate.


Coal,
,


Colwell Bay,


Compton Bay,
,


Conglomerate, modern,


"Crackers,"


Cretaceous.


Crioceras,


Current Bedding,


Cycads.



Denudation,
,
,
,
,


Dip
,



Echinoderms,
,


Eocene,


Erosion, marine,

  "      pre-Tertiary,


Escarpment
,

Faults, 13

Fault at Brook, 30

Flint, origin of, 47
  "    implements, 97

Flora, Alum Bay, 59
  "    Eocene, 58, 62
  "    Wealden, 18, 27

Foraminifera, 42, 61


Gat Cliff, 38

Gault, 37

Glacial Period, 77-85

Glauconite, 24, 39, 44

Gore Cliff, 39, 44

Greensand, Lower, 23-36
  "    Upper, 37

Gravels, 50, 79, 89, 93-95


Hamstead, 65, 67

Headon Hill, 62-64

Hempstead, see Hamstead.

Hyopotamus, 69


Ice Age, 77-85

Iguanodon, 20

Insect Limestone, 67

Iron Ore, 22, 24

Iron pyrites, 22


Landslips, 25, 38

Limnæa, 63, 64, 66

Lobsters, Atherfield, 32

London Clay, 57

Luccombe, Landslip at, 25


Mammalian Remains, 66, 69

Mammoth, 77, 81

Marvel, 35

Medina, 93

Melbourn Rock, 45

Miocene, 69, 71, 76


Nautilus, 32, 45

Needles, 4

Neolithic Man, 100

Newtown River, 102

Nummulites, 61


Oligocene, 63


Palæolithic Man, 97

Perna Bed, 23, 31

Pine Raft, 29

Planorbis, 63, 64, 66

Plastic Clay, 57

Priory Bay, 99

Purbeck Marble, 16


Quarr, 65


Rag, 38

Rock (place), 35

Roman Villas, 104


St. Boniface Down, 50, 100, 105

St. George's Down, 79, 100

Sandown Anticline, 11-13, 89

Sandrock, 25, 35

Scaphites, 34

Scenery, 105


Sea Urchins, 48, 52,

Shanklin Chine, 107

Solent, 94

Southampton Dock, 101
  "          Water, 94

Sponges in Flint, 47

Stone Age, 97

Strata, Table of, 110, 111

Strike, 11

Submerged Forest, 101

Swanage, 93

Syncline, 12


Table of Strata, 110, 111

Tertiary, 54

Totland Bay, 63, 95

Tufa, 45

Turtle, 58, 65, 68


Undercliff, formation of, 25, 38


Volcanic Action, 5


Wealden, 15

Whitcliff Bay, 56-67

Wood, Fossil, 8, 15, 18, 27, 29


Yar, Eastern, 89-91
Western, 92


Zones of Chalk, 51, 52

 

 

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