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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12961399163).jpg 422 <br> PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY June 23 <br> SO I shall merely quote from my notes At the east end of the sec- <br> tion and near to the railway- station I unexpectedly found real pinel <br> in a deep side -cutting Its surface was uneven as if it had been <br> denuded In one place the sand and fine shingle had found their <br> way through a narrow opening down into a cavity in the pinel A <br> little further west the pinel gives place to sand and gravel as in <br> Above the section represented in fig 5 there is a <br> 5 <br> great <br> Fig 5 Section near Ulver stone <br> A Coarse gravel lower part of middle drift B Pinel graduating into <br> a bed of small pebbles with patches of sand C D Yellowish-brown loam <br> graduating into a thin pebble-bed eastwards E Bed of fine dark sand more <br> or less laminated depth unknown <br> thickness of coarse and fine sand coarse and fine gravel and cleanly <br> washed pebble-beds Interstratification of coarse and fine materials <br> oblique lamination and false-bedding are common The beds are <br> very much contorted scarcely a layer being horizontal many dip- <br> ping at an angle of 45° and some even at a higher angle One <br> boulder in the middle drift measured about 10 x 4 x 5 feet It was <br> quite angular and not striated in this respect differing from the <br> more or less rounded and striated boulders of the pinel At the west <br> end of the railway cutting where the ground falls a bed of <br> pinel about 3 feet thick rises nearly to the surface It is covered <br> with ochreous stony earth and underlain by irregular layers of sand <br> Further east the pinel splits into two beds one running up another <br> down with a wedge of sand between The upper bed graduates into <br> a fine sandy loam with patches of pebbles ;- the under bed dips be- <br> neath the level of the railway and is lost About the middle of the <br> cutting there are several thick beds of sand and gravel One of the <br> latter about 20 feet thick consists of an unstratified mass of stones <br> firmly compacted It seems to differ from pinel only in the stones <br> having a matrix of sand instead of clay in their being more rounded <br> and in their not being striated So far as the complicated pheno- <br> mena presented by the Ulverstone railway-section furnish indications <br> of origin I think that while the middle drift was accumulated by <br> almost purely marine agency the pinel implies nothing further <br> than glacial-marine conditions <br> / Contorted Sand and Gravel in other parts of the Furness Peninsula <br> � Sand and gravel more or less contorted may be found running from <br> Not quite as the transported blocks and contorted stratification can only <br> be explained by floating and stranding ice 36103297 111288 51125 Page 422 Text v 25 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36103297 1869 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 25 1869 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36103297 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36103297 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-06 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12961399163 2015-08-26 14 52 35 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1869 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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