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BEMBRIDGE BEDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 714 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEMBRIDGE BEDS , in See also:

geology, strata forming See also:part of the fluvio-marine See also:series of deposits of Oligocene See also:age, in the Isle of See also:Wight and See also:Hampshire, See also:England. They See also:lie between the See also:Ham-See also:stead beds above and the See also:Osborne beds below. The Bembridge marls, See also:freshwater, estuarine and marine See also:clays and marls (70-120 ft.) See also:rest upon the Bembridge See also:limestone, a freshwater See also:pool See also:deposit (15—25 ft.), with large See also:land snails (Amphidromus and Helices), freshwater snails (Planorbis, Limnaea), and the fruits of Chara. The marls contain, besides the freshwater Limnaea and Unio, such forms as Meretrix, Ostrea and Melanopsis. A thin calcareous sandy layer in this See also:division has yielded the remains of many See also:insects and fossil leaves. See " Geology of the Isle of Wight," Mem. Geol. Survey, 2nd ed. 1889.

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