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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12895070793).jpg 284 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY <br> removed from the rock readily falls apart so that even the beds of <br> fine sand and soft marl yield less to the denuding agents than does <br> this bed <br> When first the bed appears at the beach it is overlain by one of <br> fine red sand which is about seventy feet thick and contains no <br> Fig 2 ” View of the Cliff looking Westward <br> Bed <br> marl <br> pebbles ; but a bed immediately above this has here and there a <br> pebble The exposure of the pebble-bed itself from where it is first <br> Fig 3 ” Front View of the Cliff showing the Pebble-bed as it first <br> rises from the beach <br> ˘ if <br> Bed sand <br> Pebble-bed <br> Beach <br> seen to begin eastward to the point westward where it rises above <br> the beach is near half a mile ; and here the underlying bed in <br> contiguity with it is shown to be red marl <br> Going westward again we find about a quarter of a mile further <br> on that the red sand-bed lying above the pebble-bed thins out and <br> about half a mile further westward still the pebble-bed itself dis- <br> appears and the whole of the cliff becomes red marl <br> This bed of red marl extends as far west as Littleham Bay about <br> a mile beyond the point where the pebble-bed thins out ; and here <br> it abuts against a conglomerate containing pebbles of Carboniferous <br> Grit of small size and very angular This abrupt junction of the 36089541 111261 51125 Page 284 Text v 20 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36089541 1864 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 20 1864 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36089541 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36089541 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-03 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12895070793 2015-08-26 16 54 13 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1864 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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