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Some sections in the Lower Gault of the Weald, by H. G. Owen, published 1963 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 74 issue 1, article, pp.35-53) View Online
Abstract:Sections in the dentatus Zone of the Lower Gault in the Weald are described. The presence of the eodentatus Subzone at the Coney Hill sand-pit, Barrow Green, is recorded and a comparison is made with deposits of this Subzone exposed at the Shere By-Pass and at Folkestone. The benettianus Subzone exposed at Shere and in the Sevenoaks Brick Works are described and correlated with other known or possible occurrences in the Weald. The expansion of deposits of the dentatus-spathi Subzone in the northern Weald when traced westwards from Folkestone is demonstrated. In Kent and east Surrey the deposits are greatly condensed. In west Surrey the degree of condensation becomes less, and in east Hampshire the dentatus-spathi Subzone is little condensed and forms the bulk of the Lower Gault. In the Selborne area it appears that the transgression during the cristatum and basal orbignyi Subzones has removed all Lower Gault sediments above the dentatus-spathi Subzone. In Sussex there is evidence of an easterly condensation within deposits of this Subzone, and the presence of a nodule bed, comparable to the dentatus nodule bed at Folkestone, is recorded in the English Channel off Beachy Head.