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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (14072601671).jpg 258 <br> A T METCALPE ON VERTEBEATE REMAINS <br> EiTer Sid <br> Sidmouth <br> Chit Eock <br> fault <br> Peake Hill <br> Windy Gap - <br> /'il <br> i I <br> Ik <br> wm <br> rsi HighPeake <br> Hill <br> § § <br> Ossiferous <br> stratum <br> Ladram <br> i Bay <br> sq <br> <br> r-T OttertoD <br> ¢ Point <br> Eiver Otter <br> Budleigh <br> Salterton <br> found in it a large number of <br> bone fragments including seve- <br> ral portions of jawbones of rep- <br> tiles with teeth in line In <br> the autumn of 882 I mj-self <br> visited High Peake Hill and <br> succeeded in finding in the <br> talus numerous fragments of <br> fossilized bone including one <br> flat one probably dermal <br> 3 inches by 2 in size In this <br> specimen the bone structure is <br> remarkably well preserved and <br> distinctly visible to the naked <br> eye I was also particularly <br> struck with the presence of <br> numerous isolated small white <br> fragments of irregular shape <br> both thick and thin in the <br> blocks of sandstone most of <br> them no larger than a florin <br> and many as small as a six- <br> pence Fragments of a similar <br> character have been examined <br> under the microscope by Mr <br> Carter whose statement is as <br> follows ” <br> Where the consistence is <br> firm the bone structure is visible <br> throughout although there may <br> be no form for identification <br> In other specimens which have <br> become soft chalk-like orpul- <br> verulentwhen dry the presence <br> alone of little thin plates of <br> translucent material somewhat <br> like mica in appearance but <br> calcareous in composition dis- <br> persed irregularly throughout <br> the mass preserves the bone <br> structure and that so unmis- <br> takably that they can be thus <br> satisfactorily identified even <br> without form These fragments <br> are occasionally more or less <br> replaced by red clay and also <br> more or less charged vpith crys- <br> talline grains of quartz a cir- <br> cumstance which appears to <br> arise from a metamorphic <br> transposition of the surround- 36941047 113697 51125 Page 258 Text 40 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941047 1884 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 40 1884 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36941047 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941047 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14072601671 2015-08-26 05 56 53 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1884 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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