On the Bracklesham Beds of the Isle of Wight Basin

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Introduction .—We are indebted to Mr. Prestwich for a clear conception of the age of the Bracklesham series, and of its place among the Eocene Tertiaries; while the late Mr. Dixon has described the fossils of Bracklesham and Selsea, and given a very interesting account of the coast of that part of Sussex. In the course, however, of collecting specimens from these beds during the last eight years, I have been led to think that there are many points of interest on which a more minute description of the succession of their subordinate divisions, and of the fossiliferous localities, might be acceptable. The term “Bracklesham Beds” is applied to the group of strata, many of them rich in organic remains, the greater part of which are seen displayed at low water upon the shore of Bracklesham Bay in Sussex. But I shall include under that name beds that are above any seen at Bracklesham Bay, because, when the deposits of Stubbington and of the New Forest come to be described, it will appear that many of the fossil forms peculiar to the Bracklesham Beds range higher than the highest stratum seen at the Bay. In other words, I shall group certain strata, which appear to intervene between the base of the Barton series and the highest beds of Bracklesham Bay, among the Bracklesham Beds, on account of their containing an assemblage of fossils more akin to the fauna of the latter than of the former. As regards the inferior limit, I

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