The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . Pig. 6.—Section across the pass between the Oxted streamand the Darent. w. E. Limpsfield Common. 527. Farley Westerham Hill. Station. Darent 478. 346. 3Tr£ a. Red Clay-with-flints of the Chalk Plateau. h. High-level ochreous flint-gravel. c. Brick-earth and trail. c. Low-level Gravel. o. Site of Palicolithic flint-implements of the high-level valley tvpe. 2. Chalk. 3. Upper Greensand and Gault. 4. Lower Greensand. 5. Lpper-Wealden strata. The Iron-sandstone comes from the underlying Lower Green-sand, and the quartzite-pebbles are
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . Pig. 6.—Section across the pass between the Oxted streamand the Darent. w. E. Limpsfield Common. 527. Farley Westerham Hill. Station. Darent 478. 346. 3Tr£ a. Red Clay-with-flints of the Chalk Plateau. h. High-level ochreous flint-gravel. c. Brick-earth and trail. c. Low-level Gravel. o. Site of Palicolithic flint-implements of the high-level valley tvpe. 2. Chalk. 3. Upper Greensand and Gault. 4. Lower Greensand. 5. Lpper-Wealden strata. The Iron-sandstone comes from the underlying Lower Green-sand, and the quartzite-pebbles are derived, not from the New lied 140 PROF. PRESTWICH ON THE AGE, FORMATION, AND Sandstone, but from the pebble-beds of Lower-Eocene (Woolwich)age. The composition of this gravel renders it obvious that it is derivedfrom the Chalk and Tertiarieson the hills to the north of escarpment is there capped by the lied Clay-with-flints, with iso-lated outliers of Tertiary strata. One of the most important of thelatter, consisting chiefly of a mass of flint-pebbles, occurs at WormsHeath, three miles north of Limpsfield. It has there been much dis-turbed, and the pebbles are mixed with numerous angular a
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