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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12893721523).jpg 428 <br> MR E P RIQKARDS ON THE GRAVELS AND Allg 1897 <br> is the lowest gravel found at Newbury It appears to be a gravel <br> derived from all the other gravels mentioned but with <br> a larger <br> percentage of flints direct from the Chalk The finest section was <br> exposed at the pumping-station of the drainage-works in the flat <br> water-meadows near the Kennet on Cook's Farm represented by <br> fig 5 The base of the gravel is about 240 feet above O D The <br> white flinty clay underlying this was sticky adhering tenaciously <br> to the flint-nodules intermingled with it <br> Fig 5 ” Section at the Pumping-station of the Drainage-works <br> I0h feet <br> feet <br> 5 feet <br> exposed <br> 9 C° <br> 'V'CF <br> fa <br> – IP <br> -ifo <br> aV 5 <br> a <br> Peaty soil and peat with Neolithic flint- <br> implements <br> Stiff pale yellow sandy homogeneous clay <br> Clean flint-shingle grey in colour sarsens up to <br> 12 inches in diameter near the base and small <br> chalk-fragments intermingled throughout <br> Composition <br> 70 brown flints most of them nearly rounded <br> the rest subangular; <br> 20 0/ subangular white-coated black flints <br> black where worn ; <br> 10 0/ subangular ferruginous gritstone green- <br> coated flints large subangular sarsens and <br> flint-nodules <br> White sandy clay with black flint-nodules and <br> chalk- fragments <br> Chalk-with-flints <br> Vertical scale \ inch 1 foot <br> About 30 yards north of the pumping-station I obtained the <br> section shown in fig 6 This gravel usually has a grey appearance <br> the flints unless rounded being much battered and abraded The <br> matrix is frequently absent; when present it is of the cleanest <br> quartzose sand and rarely the upper portion has a matrix of white <br> shell-marl loosely filling the interstices The water percolated <br> through this gravel into our sinkings at an extraordinary rate <br> necessitating the use of three steam-pumps at one time to keep the <br> water from rising in a shaft 19 feet square when only sunk 15 feet 36029251 111130 51125 Page 428 Text 53 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36029251 1897 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 53 1897 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36029251 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36029251 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 N02/12893721523 2015-08-26 16 57 19 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1897 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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