Excerpt from The Geology of the Country Around Alresford Physical Features. - The country is conveniently divisible into three roughly north-and-south belts, of unequal width, and com prising, (1) the Chalk country, which occupies nearly three-fourths of the whole area, on the west, (2) the narrow, terrace-like tract on the Malmstone (upper Greensand), between Binsted and Langrish, and (3) the sandy ground on the Lower Cretaceous rocks, with its border of clay land on the Gault, to the east. In describing their principal features it will be convenient to deal with their streams in a separate section. 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.