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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13958825083).jpg 566 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY JllllC 20 <br> pebbles and ironstone-nodules cemented pretty firmly together and <br> passing np into fine yellow sand laminated and well bedded and this <br> again covered by the gravelly loam which lies indifferently npon chalk <br> or sand The chalk is fissured rises in little craggy prominences into <br> the drift 6 or shows steep short escarpments against which the <br> chalk-rubble has accumulated I saw it in this form at Herting- <br> fordbury a few weeks back <br> However we have only to return to the station and enter the <br> bay in the cliff where the lime-kilns are at work to see the accom- <br> panying section South of the gravel-shoot the chalk descends <br> rapidly dipping N or N W to within 10 feet of the road-level and <br> is much shattered in the hollow The fine gravelly sand underlain <br> by 2 or 3 feet of conglomerate follows it; and then just under <br> the shoot which seems put there to protect the section it is suddenly <br> faulted to the extent of at least 7 feet and probably more showing <br> the clean face of a fault which has cut through chalk chalk- and <br> flint-pebbles and gravelly drift the faces of the faults three or four <br> in number and parallel to each other being as clearly defined in the <br> hard drift and conglomerate bed the pebbles of which are often <br> fractured across as in the chalk itself The loam and chalk-rubble <br> mixed descend irregularly into the hollow and leave generally but <br> a foot or two of undenuded gravel- drift above the conglomerate <br> Section of ChaVc Drift and Upper Gravels at Hitcinn Station <br> a Chalk <br> b Drift <br> c Pebble-bed <br> d Fine gravelly sand <br> The section here is so very clear as to admit of no doubt ; and I <br> leave the matter for the consideration of those who are apt to forget <br> that faults in the drift imply a very recent modification of the surface <br> by movements similar in kind if in less degree to those which produced 36165019 111477 51125 Page 566 Text v 22 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36165019 1866 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 22 1866 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36165019 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36165019 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13958825083 2015-08-26 06 54 58 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1866 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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