Publications
Tangmere and Waterbeach, by J. M. Hodgson, published May 1963 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 1, article, pp.12-15) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library
The low-level Pleistocene marine sands and gravels of the West Sussex Coastal Plain, by J. M. Hodgson, published 1964 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 75 issue 4, article, pp.547-561) View Online
Abstract:The nature, origin and relationships of low-level Pleistocene marine sands and gravel, together with a map of their distribution compiled during a soil survey of the West Sussex Coastal Plain, are described and discussed.
There has been considerable solution of the underlying wave-cut platform where it cuts across the Chalk. This solution, which post-dates the beach, gives a variation in platform height independent of its original slope.
The wave-cut platform rises from about six feet O.D. to at least eighteen and a half feet O.D., and probably several feet higher, and the deposits, which are widespread and continuous except over the Chalk, rise to an observed maximum of forty-seven feet O.D. There is no evidence for the separate existence of more than one deposit within these altitudinal limits. The beach is considered to be the westward continuation of the similar beach at Black Rock, Brighton.
There has been considerable solution of the underlying wave-cut platform where it cuts across the Chalk. This solution, which post-dates the beach, gives a variation in platform height independent of its original slope.
The wave-cut platform rises from about six feet O.D. to at least eighteen and a half feet O.D., and probably several feet higher, and the deposits, which are widespread and continuous except over the Chalk, rise to an observed maximum of forty-seven feet O.D. There is no evidence for the separate existence of more than one deposit within these altitudinal limits. The beach is considered to be the westward continuation of the similar beach at Black Rock, Brighton.
Soils of the West Sussex Coastal Plain, by John Michael Hodgson, published 1967 (Bulletin no. 3 of the Soil Survey of Great Britain (England and Wales), viii + 148 pp., Harpenden [Herts.]: Rothamsted Experimental Station) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries