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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12735569335).jpg GLOUCESTER DORSET AND SOMERSET O <br> bring that about there would not be much difference between the <br> Ham-Hill section and several other sections near Sherborne <br> Fig 2 � Comparative Sections of Beds at Ham Hill and <br> Babylon Hill <br> Ham Hill <br> Babylon Hill <br> Bedded <br> brown <br> sandy - <br> free- <br> stones <br> I te <br> Dorset Cephalopoda-bed <br> <br> Brown sands <br> with occasional <br> blocks and <br> bands of sandy <br> freestones con- <br> taining Oolitic <br> fossils <br> - i 's r T ' i ' <br> Position of Gloucestershire <br> Cephalopoda-bed <br> Ham Hill has always been a puzzle to the geologist ; but if we <br> place it on the same horizon as the so-called Lias Sands at Brad- <br> ford the difficulty is at once cleared up <br> Mr Moore in his paper On the Middle and Upper Lias of the <br> South-west of England speaking of Ham Hill says � <br> The workable freestone at this spot is 58 feet thick and almost <br> entirely composed of comminuted shells united by an irony cement <br> and is a remarkable deposit ; for though attaining so considerable a <br> thickness it does not appear to be represented in any other locality <br> It has been largely worked for centuries and yields a very excellent <br> stone of a light-brown colour due to the presence of carbonate of <br> iron an analysis of the deposit proving it to contain 14 per cent of <br> metallic iron <br> The best Gloucestershire equivalent of this bed is to be seen in <br> the straight wall of rock at Crickley Hill which latter section we <br> consider the equivalent of the freestone-beds at Ham Hill and the <br> Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural-History <br> Society rol xiii 1865-G6 35818110 110705 51125 Page 5 Text 33 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818110 1877 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 33 1877 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35818110 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818110 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 N02/12735569335 2015-08-26 19 58 51 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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