The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight

by J. Cecil Hughes

TABLE OF STRATA

Recent.	Peat and River Alluvium.
Pleistocene.	Plateau Gravels: Valley Gravels and Brick-Earth.
Tertiary		Pliocene Miocene		Absent from the Isle of Wight.
		Oligocene		Hamstead Marine, Corbula Beds Freshwater & Estuarine. Bembridge Beds Bembridge Marls Bembridge Limestone Osborne and St. Helen's Beds. Headon Beds Upper. Freshwater and Brackish Middle. Marine Lower. Freshwater and Brackish
		Eocene		Barton Beds Barton Sand. Barton Clay.
				Bracklesham Beds. Bagshot Sands London Clay Plastic Clay (Reading Beds)

Mesozoic or Secondary

Upper Cretaceous

White Chalk Upper Chalk (Chalk with flints) Middle Chalk (Chalk without flints) Lower Chalk A. plenus Marls Grey Chalk Chalk Marl Chloritic Marl Selbornian Upper Greensand Chert Beds Sandstone and Rag Beds Gault Lower Cretaceous Lower Greensand Carstone Sandrock and Clays Ferruginious Sands Atherfield Clay Perna Bed Wealden Shales Variegated Marls

FOR FURTHER STUDY.

Memoirs of the Geological Survey. General Memoir of the Isle of Wight, date 1889. New edition, entitled "A short account of the Geology of the Isle of Wight," by H. J. Osborne White, F.G.S., 1921, price 10s. The Memoirs are the great authority for the Geology of the Island: technical; books for Geologists. The New Edition is more condensed than the original, but contains much later research. Mantell's "Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight," 1847. By one of the great early geologists. Long out of print, but worth getting, if it can be picked up second-hand.

Norman's "Guide to the Geology of the Isle of Wight," 1887, still to be obtained of Booksellers in the Island. Gives details of strata, and lists of fossils, with pencil drawings of fossils.

Other books bearing on the subject have been mentioned in the text and foot-notes.