| 单词 |
Fairlight Clay |
| 释义 |
Fairlight Clay [f. Fairlight, name of a town in Sussex + clay n.] A band of shales and clays of the Wealden series extending through Kent and East Sussex.
1875W. Topley Geol. Weald i. i. 5 In the neighbourhood of Hastings and Fairlight, clays have been separately mapped..and were termed ‘Ashburnham Beds’... They are now called Fairlight Clays. 1929P. G. H. Boswell in Evans & Stubblefield Handbk. Geol. Gt. Brit. 388 Near Hastings and Eastbourne the lower part is replaced by a lenticular mass of variegated and mottled clays, the Fairlight Clays (350 ft. +) with seams of lignite, sandstone and spherulitic ironstone. 1960L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. (ed. 5) xvi. 189 Fairlight Clays, grey and variegated shales and clays. |

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