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See also: grey and See also: brown
See also: clays, with layers of See also: sand, of Upper Eocene age, which are found in the Hampshire See also: Tertiary See also: basin, where they are particularly well exposed in the cliffs of See also: Barton, Hordwell, and in the Isle of See also: Wight
.
Above the highly fossiliferous Barton See also: Clay there is a sandy series with few fossils; these are the Headon See also: Hill or Barton Sands
.
Either of these names is preferable to the
See also: term " Upper Bagshot Beds," which has been applied to these sands
.
The Barton Beds are absent from the See also: London basin, and the Upper Bagshot Sands of that See also: area are probably of a See also: lower See also: horizon than the Barton Sands
.
The term "Bartonien " was introduced by Mayer-Eymar in 1857 for the See also: continental equivalents of the series
.
Hampshire basin and See also: Paris basin
.
Isle of Wight
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Barton Sands 140-200 ft
.
See also: Limestone of St Ouen
.
Barton Clay 162-255 ft
.
Bartonien Sands of See also: Beauchamp (sables moyen)
.
Fusus longaevus,Volutilithes luctatrix, Ostrea gigantea, Pectunculus (Glycimeris) deleta are characteristic fossils; fishes (Lamna, See also: Arius, &c.) and a See also: crocodile (Diplocynodon) are also found in the Barton Clay
.
The sands are very pure and are used in See also: glass making
.
See " Geology of the Isle of Wight," Mem
.
Geol
.
Survey (2nd ed., 1889) ; and " The Geology of the Country around Southampton," Mem
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Geol
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Survey (1902)
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A
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BARTON-UPON-See also: HUMBER, a market See also: town in the N
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See also: Lindsey or Brigg See also: parliamentary division of See also: Lincolnshire, See also: England, the See also: terminus of a branch of the See also: Great Central railway, 44 M
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N. by E. of Lincoln
.
Pop. of See also: urban See also: district (1901) 5671
.
It lies beneath low hills, on flat ground bordering the Humber, but the centre of the town is a mile from theSee also: river
.
The See also: church of St
See also: Peter has a remarkable west tower of pre-See also: Conquest workman-See also: ship, excepting the early Norman top. storey
.
Against the western face is a low See also: building of the date of the lower tower-storeys, measuring 15 ft. by 12, with See also: rude, deeply-splayed windows
.
The tower itself is arcaded in the two lower storeys, having round See also: arches in the lower and triangular in the upper, and there is a round-headed S. doorway and a triangular-headed N. doorway
.
The rest of the church is Decorated and Perpendicular
.
The church of St Mary is See also: fine Early See also: English with Perpendicular See also: clerestory
.
See also: Industries include brick-making, malting, and rope-making
.
Barton appears in Domesday, when the See also: ferry over the Humber existed
.
As a See also: port, moreover, it subsequently See also: rose into some importance, for it was able to supply eight See also: ships and men to the expedition of See also: Edward III. to See also: Brittany
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