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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12735728115).jpg F W HARMER ON THE KESSINGLAND CLIFF-SECTION <br> 130 <br> Mastodon lihinoceros and other animals whose remains occur in this <br> stone -bed been buried in it at the time they died or soon after we <br> could not fail to find a proportionally greater number of bones than <br> Fig 3 � Section representing the supposed Conditions under which the <br> Stone-bed ccdled Land-surface at the Base of the Norwich Crag <br> was formed <br> ncff <br> HiEHiaiJ-ittilSiS <br> 1 Low cliff of Chalk with rows of flints a in situ <br> 2 Beds of Older and Newer Pliocene age capping the Chalk and contain- <br> ing the remains of Mastodon arvcnicusis and other Mammalia <br> b Talus of chalk- flints passing into b r the basement-bed of the Norwich <br> Crag as the sea encroached on the land <br> of teeth ; we should sometimes meet with entire skeletons or <br> portions of them with associated bones more or less in juxtaposition <br> and we should often find jaws with teeth attached as we do in the <br> undisturbed Cromer Forest-bed and elsewhere; but the very reverse <br> of all this is the case The supposition on the other hand that these <br> worn and fragmentary teeth were derived from the waste of some <br> older deposit explains these facts The bones of a skeleton washed <br> by waves from a cliff fragile as such fossil remains always are <br> would be as a rule quickly destroyed while the teeth being harder <br> would be preserved and buried a second time The cliff of course <br> would be worn away as the land sank and became submerged <br> A similar stone-bed occasionally overlies and is bedded up to the <br> denuded remnants of the Forest which is by no means the continuous <br> formation it has sometimes been represented to be on the North <br> Norfolk coast It often contains mammalian fossils derived from the <br> freshwater deposit associated with the true Forest-bed in the imme- <br> diate neighbourhood and has sometimes been mistaken for those <br> deposits in situ It extends laterally beyond the limits of that for- <br> mation forming as at Weybourne on the surface of the Chalk the <br> basement bed of the Lower Glacial Pebbly sands It contains at <br> that place marine shells of the same species as the deposit which <br> overlies it The bed of flints in question at the base of the Norwich <br> The statement that an entire skeleton of the Mastodon was found some <br> years ago at Horstead is one which rests entirely on hearsay evidence and is <br> I believe from inquiries I have made unworthy of credit 35818242 110705 51125 Page 139 Text 33 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818242 1877 Geological Society of London NameFound Mammalia NameConfirmed Mammalia EOLID 15503955 NameBankID 2478620 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 33 1877 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35818242 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818242 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-24 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12735728115 2015-08-26 19 51 35 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1877 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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