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IV.—The Clava “Shell-Bed”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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From what has been said, it appears that the absence of all traces of the sea at a similar level, and at many approximate levels, all round the country, and the absence of relics of marine life, more or less abundant, in the Upper (or supposed post-submergence) Bouhler-clay, are insuperable difficulties against accepting the alleged submergence of 500 to 600 feet—that is to say, difficulties which have resisted all attempts to explain them away.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1895

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page 351 note 1 See Mellard Reade on “Masses of Chalk imbedded in the Drift of Cromer” (Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxviii, 1882). “Great Ice Age,” p. 338.Google Scholar

page 354 note 1 Phys. Geol. and Geog. of Great Britain, p. 157 (3rd edition).Google Scholar

page 355 note 1 “A velocity of 6 in. per second will lift fine sand, 8 in. will move sand as coarse as linseed, 12 in. will sweep along fine gravel,” etc.—Sir J. Lubbock.