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Excerpt from The Geology of the Country Near Fareham and Havant No rocks older than the Sandgate Beds are known to have been reached in any local boring, but it is highly probable that the inferior members of the Lower Greensand, and the Weald Clay, which crop out near Rogate immediately to the north, and also in the Isle of Wight about 12 miles to the south, underlie the Upper Cretaceous through-out the district. It is little less prob able that the Wealden Beds pass down into the Purbeck, which elsewhere in the south of England rests on Portlandian strata, and these in turn on older stages of the upper Jurassic Series. The descending succession may well resemble that seen on the Dorset coast; and, in any case, it is likely that the Cretaceous Beds are separated by a great thickness of older Secondary sedi ments from the sunken platform of Primary or Palaeozoic rocks below. The chances in favour of Coal Measures being met with at a workable depth are, therefore, discouragingly small. The tectonic structure of the district - as far as the visible rocks are concerned - is discussed in Chapter XII. Industries.-besides agriculture, the local industries closely connected with geology are quarrying, lime-burning, and the manufacture of bricks, tiles, pottery, and whiting. Some remarks on these subjects, and on the water supply, will be found under the heading of Economic Geology, at the end of this memoir. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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