Strata in Sussex

Three geological sections through areas of Sussex, England. Figure 1: ‘Plan of the Stratification of the South Eastern part of Sussex’. Figure 2: ‘Section from Lewes to the Black Boys’. Figure 3: ‘Section from Terrible Down to the Black Boys’, showing iron sand and limestone in the parish of Framfield. Local landmarks are indicated on each illustration.

Plate 3 from the book The fossils of the South Downs; or illustrations of the geology of Sussex, by Gideon Algernon Mantell (London, Lupton Relfe, 1822).

Inscribed above ‘Tab III’. Inscribed below: ‘Gideon Mantell delt. Mary Ann Mantell Sculpt.’

Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852) surgeon and geologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825.