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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13071107643).jpg 1867 <br> JrDD LIXCOLXSHTRE WOLDS <br> 24i <br> \m <br> 5i <br> s <br> ¢na J pjoj ax <br> T-ioj X <br> ¢jCqnotcqBg - <br> ¢lUH eoH <br> IK <br> – q iFj <br> – - <br> fl s ® <br> 5 o 3 <br> ' –ºO to <br> or 30 feet deep entirely in these <br> sands In the upper part we find <br> white ash-grey and mottled sands ; <br> in the lower part coarse brown <br> sands in places indurated into a <br> stone like the Carstone of IsTor- <br> folk The only fossil which occurs <br> in any abundance is a species of <br> Fecfen P ehngatus Lam which <br> however is very seldom found <br> except in fragments <br> N'orth of the typical section this <br> series of beds appears to become <br> much thinner ; it can however be <br> traced at various places as at <br> Searby the Gallows Plantation <br> near Barnetby-le-Wold and the <br> sides of the valley in which Elsham <br> is situated The most conspicu- <br> ous parts of the stratum at these <br> places are the masses of hard green- <br> ish sandstone and grit often full <br> of casts of Pectens which are used <br> for building <br> On going southwards however <br> we find that as the Kmestones and <br> clays of the Tealby series thin out <br> the sands and sandstones below <br> become of greater thickness and <br> importance and spread over a <br> much more considerable area The <br> formation here constitutes the mass <br> of numerous ridges and isolated <br> hills which are capped by the pecu- <br> liar drift already described and are <br> characterized by their fantastic and <br> often picturesque outlines The <br> bottoms of the valleys between these <br> ridges and hills are formed by the <br> blue clays which lie below the <br> beds I am describing usually much <br> covered with alluvium See sec- <br> tion fig 5 <br> With the exception of the species <br> of Pecten already mentioned frag- <br> ments of which occur in great <br> numbers scattered through the <br> sandstone fossils are rare and usu- <br> ally confined to particular bands <br> of nodules Such bands are seen in 36344996 112028 51125 Page 247 Text v 23 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36344996 1867 Geological Society of London NameFound P ehngatus NameFound Pecten NameConfirmed Pecten EOLID 10719936 NameBankID 2692292 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 23 1867 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36344996 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36344996 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-10 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13071107643 2015-08-26 14 52 30 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1867 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1867 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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