Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Economic Geology in LondonH.M. Stationery Office, 1881 |
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12 feet 20 feet Akenham alluvium Barham base-bed beds Bildeston bottom Boulder Clay Boulder Clay Sand brick-clay brickearth bricks brickyard brown loam buff Cambridge Phil Chalk chalk-pit church Claydon clayey coarse gravel Cockfield Coddenham Crag Creeting St Diluvial Boulder district Drinkstone F.G.S. Price Farm feet thick flints Geol Geological Survey GEOLOGY Gipping Glacial Drift gravel and sand gravelly Greensand grey clay H. W. BRISTOW half a mile Hall HAUGHLEY GREEN Hemingston Hill Horizontal Sections Illustrating Sheet J. B. PHEAR laminated Lavenham layers light-brown Little Blakenham loam Memoirs Mendlesham mile N.E. Needham Market NW & SW occurs Offton old pit outcrop patches pebbles phosphatic nodules pit showed quarter Railway Station sand and gravel sandy shells showed Boulder Clay side Somersham STONHAM Stowmarket Thanet Thurston Tostock Trans tributary valley Vertical Sections W. B. CLARKE W. T. AVELINE Wetherden WHITAKER white sand Woolpit دو وو
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Page 6 - I obtained between Coddenham and Crowfield, in Suffolk, a number of fragments of shells from the outcrop of a bed of clean gravel, which at the latter place is overlain by...
Page 3 - I found a section of highly micaceous laminated clay passing up into micaceous sand," * which he is inclined to regard i as Chillesf ord Clay.
Page 1 - Hall, and on the western side of the high road, about half a mile E., is another pit.