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Barton2|ˈbɑːtən|
The name of a district near Lymington, Hampshire, applied attrib. to deposits of a division of the Eocene period in Britain. Hence Barˈtonian a., pertaining to or resembling the deposits at Barton.
1847J. Prestwich in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. III. 357 Having thus associated the London clay with the Barton beds..the organic remains..were taken as belonging to one and the same deposit. 1893Geikie Textbk. Geol. (ed. 3) vi. iv. 980 In..the northern Apennines Professor Sacco regards as Eocene a mass of strata..which he subdivides as follows:—Bartonian. 100 metres [etc.]. 1902A. J. Jukes-Browne Stratigr. Geol. xvi. 487 The Calcaire Grossier of the Paris Basin is succeeded by a group of sands... The upper part corresponds to our Barton Sands..containing Bartonian fossils. 1957Encycl. Brit. VIII. 632/2 Overlying these in the Bartonian stage are the Barton clay and sands. |