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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12895390644).jpg VICARY BITDLEIOU SALTERTON <br> 283 <br> On the Pebble- bed of Budleigh Salterton By W Vicary Esq <br> Esq F G S With a Note on the Fossils; by J W Salter <br> F U S A L S <br> Read December 16 1863 <br> Plates XV -XVII <br> In bringing the fossils figured in Plates XV -XVII under the notice <br> of the Geological Society I beg to offer a few remarks on the locality <br> in which they Avere found and on one or two other circumstances <br> connected with them <br> If we look at a geological map of Devon it will be seen that from <br> Petit Tor near Babbacombe Bay to a little way beyond Sidmouth <br> the coast exhibits cliffs of the New Red Sandstone formation <br> These rocks present us with variously modified features At about <br> a quarter of a mile west of Budleigh Salterton and for about a mile <br> and a half further on in the same direction is a bed containing <br> pebbles in large quantities varying from a small size to that of a <br> man's head These are generally of a flattened-oval form are com- <br> pletely free from angularity and are known in the neighbourhood <br> as Budleigh pebbles or popples <br> The figures illustrating this paper represent the part of the cliff <br> where this pebble-bed is found and which furnishes the pebbles in <br> which the fossils are imbedded <br> The coast here runs in a direction nearly east and west and it <br> will be observed that the dip of the bed is to the east The diagram <br> Fig 1 <br> View of the Cliff looking Eastward <br> Red marl <br> also shows that as the pebble-bed rises up from its first appearance <br> at the beach to its highest level the regularity of the rise is disturbed <br> by the interference of several small faults The greatest thickness <br> of the bed is probably a little over a hundred feet The pebbles <br> and sand of which it is composed cohere so slightly that any portion <br> For the other communications read at this Evening-meeting see p 116 36089540 111261 51125 Page 283 Text v 20 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36089540 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 36089540 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36089540 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 N02/12895390644 2015-08-26 16 54 00 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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