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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13860490194).jpg PLIOCENE PERIOD IN ENGLAND <br> 19 <br> that figure as occupied by the <br> chalky clay but left these pebble- <br> capped eminences Stock and Bil- <br> lericay in the figure and Langdon <br> Warley Havering South Weald <br> Frierning and other hills of South <br> Essex exposed to the atmosphere <br> has covered them with a bed of <br> clay-gravel four or five feet thick <br> in which the pebbles which in the <br> original beds No VIII rest hori- <br> zontally on their shorter axes are <br> for the most part set up vertically <br> on their longer axes An accurate <br> representation of a section at South <br> Weald showing this is in the Geol <br> Survey Memoirs vol iv p 324 <br> By permission of the Council I <br> give here from a paper by Mr \l <br> N Man tell in the sixth volume of <br> the Journal a representation of a <br> cutting at Trowbridge wherein the <br> Jurassic strata are enveloped by <br> this formation in which Mr Man- <br> tell says the bones of mammalia <br> occur The site of this which is <br> in the 1ST W of Sheet 14 was sea <br> during the formation of the Chalky <br> Clay and is so represented in the <br> continuation of Map 2 The at- <br> mospheric-formation there can thus <br> be that of the minor glaciation <br> only <br> The atmospheric formation thus <br> arising during the minor glacia- <br> tion is it seems to me also repre- <br> sented by the amorphous cave- <br> earth which sliding over the sur- <br> face has penetrated the fissures <br> of the limestone in which the <br> caves occur and so entered the <br> caves carrying with it the bones <br> not only of all animals which <br> dying on the land were preserved <br> 00 fcO h- <br> 4 ž cr c <br> p o 8 3 <br> g 3 3 <br> P a- S - <br> in- n _ P <br> Q cr CL « <br> g ¢ g r <br> CO p <br> p ° ET r <br> M sr <br> tr era 3 p <br> CDGTQ hg <br> OC CD <br> o <br> £ 8 2 p <br> p-35 <br> CD O <br> CD B <br> 1 5 <br> CD o <br> VI 00 <br> CD H-K <br> O-CD <br> O E <br> o a <br> g o <br> o <br> <br> P CD <br> P 2 <br> QH5 <br> CD <br> P CD <br> 2- S - <br> ClT CD <br> US <br> g pd <br> CD O <br> CD 3 <br> cr cd <br> M- 3 <br> et- CD <br> p- co <br> DO Cj <br> CD SJ <br> Q <br> <br> The Victoria Cave near Settle being <br> within the area of the land-ice of this <br> glaciation is not filled with this amor- <br> phous earth but with finely stratified <br> clay due to aqueous deposition possibly <br> bv water from beneath the land-ice <br> cd s <br> C£ <br> M - <br> cT'OJS <br> g 3 <br> £3 36936556 113692 51125 Page 719 Text 38 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936556 1882 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 38 1882 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36936556 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936556 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-15 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13860490194 2015-08-26 07 53 38 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1882 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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