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I.—The Sculpturings of the Chalk Downs of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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The aim of this paper is to offer an explanation of the phenomena intimately related to the sculpturings of the Chalk Downs in the district under review, namely:—
(1)The Dry Chalk Valleys.
(2)The River System of the Wealden area, as far as it relates to the Chalk Downs.
(3)Incidentally, the Denudation of the Wealden area.
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This paper is substantially the same as that communicated to the Geological Society of London, April 7, 1909, certain revisions having been made subsequently. A short abstract only was printed in the Q.J.G.S., vol. lxv, pp. 208–9.
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page 51 note 1 See a paper “On the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Seaford”, by Elsden, J. V.: Q.J.G.S., vol. lxv, pp. 442–61.Google Scholar
page 52 note 1 In Scepticism in Geology (pp. 44–5), William Longman suggested that “the Chalk escarpments may have been parted asunder like the sinews of a shoulder of mutton on the application of a knife”; and SirHoworth, Henry in Ice or Water, vol. i, p. 525Google Scholar, holds that the Chalk beds were dragged apart over the softer under-lying strata for a distance of 25 miles. To my mind such an extended movement of the Chalk seems unlikely.
page 53 note 1 Q.J.G.S., vol. xlvii, pl. viiGoogle Scholar. See also Jukes-Browne, Ibid., vol. lxii, p. 132.
page 54 note 1 Q.J.G.S., vol. xliii, pp. 364–73.Google Scholar
page 55 note 1 See Young, G. W., Proc. Geol. Assoc., 1905, vol. xix, p. 191.Google Scholar
page 56 note 1 Q.J.G.S., vol. lxv, pp. 442–61.Google Scholar
page 57 note 1 On this subject see remarks by Wood, S. V., jun., Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxviii, p. 718.Google Scholar
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