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III.—On the Succession and Classification of the Beds between the Chalk and the Lower Boulder-clay in the Neighbourhood of Cromer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Clement Reid
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of England and Wales.

Extract

By the permission of the Director-General of the Geological Survey I am enabled to publish a short account of the results arrived at during a detailed examination of the cliffs between Weybourn and Mundesley on the coast of Norfolk.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1877

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page 301 note 1 Detailed descriptions of the sections and complete lists of fossils will be given in the Survey publications.

page 301 note 2 Pan occurs at various horizons.

page 302 note 1 Quart, Journ. Geol. Soc., Nov. 1871.

page 303 note 1 It should be remembered that there are two fresh-water beds at Mundesley, one older than the Lower Boulder-clay, the other newer, and probably Post-glacial.

page 303 note 2 Near Weybourn, where the Fresh-water Bed rests directly upon the Chalk, the joints and crevices in this rock are often filled with peat.

page 304 note 1 When on a visit to Westleton last year, my colleagues, MessrsWoodward, H. B. and Blake, J. H., ascertained that the shingle at that locality was the equivalent of masses of shingle that occur in the so-called Middle Glacial Sands of Dunwich Cliff.Google Scholar

page 305 note 1 Supp. to Crag Mollusca, Introduction, p. xviii.

page 305 note 2 Not shown in the Cromer Cliffs.