| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Southern England
“Geology: Notes – on N.W. of Sussex.”: 30 October 1825 Nursted [Hants]: upper ferruginous sands of Holder Hill [?] and Dunner Hill [nr. Redford, W.Sx] (p1), fossils in Isle of Wight Shanklin sands and Sussex Weald Clay (p3), clay at Harting Combe [W. Sx?] (p4); Lower Greensand and Weald Clay to Wisborough Green [W. Sx], Tillington [W. Sx], whinstone (p6), grey calcereous grit beds at Half Way Bridge [Halfway Bridge, W. Sx], Petworth [W. Sx] (p7), Pulborough [W. Sx] (p8). Weald Clay: Harting Combe], Linchmere [W. Sx], Blackdown [W. Sx] (p9), Haslemere [Sy], Ewhurst [Sy], Leith Hill [Sy], St. Catherines [nr. Guildford, Sy] (p10), escarpment from Alton [Hants] to the river Arun [W. Sx] (p11) termination of a specific stratum at Folkestone [Kent] (p12), Weald Clay at Petworth Hills [W. Sx], Pulborough and ending at Hascombe Hill [Sy] (p13), apex of Weald Clay at Harting Combe, sand of Woolmer Forest [Hants/W. Sx], gault of Alice Holt Forest [Hants], Binsted [Hants], Bentley [Hants], chalk of the Alton Range [Hants?], gault clay of Elsted [W. Sx] and Minsted [nr Midhurst, W. Sx] (p14), Buriton [Hants], Harting [W. Sx], chalk of the South Downs (p15), writes that this series should be recognised as the 'oolitic system' has been (p16). Weald Clay: continues to discuss this series (p18), Petworth marble – found between Blackdown, Petworth and Wisborough Green (p19), Plaistow [W. Sx] (p20), Plaistow, Kirdford [W. Sx], Billinghurst [Billinghurst, W. Sx] (p21), soils above the Petworth marble (p22), water full of iron eg at Loxwood [W. Sx], former iron works in the area (p23), considers possibility of coal mining (p24) - had bored at Harting Combe, estimated list of the depth of various strata (p25). Weald Clay – fossil remains: fossils in IoW and Swanage Bay [Dors] but not Wisborough Green area [W. Sx] (p27), bones at Loxwood (p28), Hartings [Hastings?] Sands - descriptions, indistinguishable border between Weald Clay and Hartings Sands of Swanage and IoW (p31), fossils at Headfoldwood [?]. Pencilled section from Alton through Harting Combe to South Downs (p34). “Malm rock range under the South Downs”: malm rock passes through Buriton, Harting, Treyford [W. Sx], Didling [W. Sx], Bepton [W.Sx], Cocking [W. Sx], Heyshott [W. Sx], Graffham [W. Sx], gault passes through Elsted, Minsted, Graffham, and is bounded by Trotton Common [W. Sx], Midhurst Common [W. Sx] Ambersham, Graffham and Lavington Commons [W. Sx], malm rock at Duncton (p37), Burtonpark, Duncton, Chichester Road, roads crossing the South Downs (good for a 'stage coach geologist') – A3, A281, A285 (p38), discusses roads and routes, description of geology - Duncton Hill, Harting, Buriton (p39), Bignor Park [W. Sx], Sutton [W. Sx] (p40), malm rock passing through Sutton, Bignor [W. Sx], Bury [W. Sx], Watersfield Common [W. Sx], Pulborough, Flexham Park [W. Sx], malm rock ends at West Burton [W. Sx]/river Arun, and reappears at Amberley [W. Sx], and is contained by Kithurst [W. Sx], Sullington [W. Sx], Rowdell [W. Sx] (p41), Parham [W. Sx], Storrington [W. Sx], Heath Common [W. Sx], and Washington [W. Sx], Dr Fitton says it reappears at Lea Houses, Beachy Head [E. Sx] (p42), other geologists have described it from Merstham [Sy] to Folkestone, describes finding the final termination of malm rock in Bentley (p43). Asterisk from Sands section: Dunner and Holder Hills, Iping [W. Sx]. Bargate stone: analysis of calcereous matter from Godalming [Sy], Terwick [W. Sx], Stedham, Allington [?] (p44), Headley [Hants], can be seen in Greenough's map through Sevenoaks [Kent] to Folkstone, bargate stone at Harting Combe, and Dunner Hill (inside back cover). |