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XXIV.—Chalk Boulders from Aberdeen and Fragments of Chalk from the Sea Floor off the Scottish Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

William Hill
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In December 1908 I received from Mr A. Earland a fragment of a rock, believed to be chalk, which had been dredged from the bottom of the North Sea. Mr Earland also informed me that he believed boulders of a similar rock occurred in some profusion near what is known as the Kinnaird Deep, off the northern coast of Aberdeenshire. As a result of our correspondence a little later, Professor D'Arcy Thompson asked me to investigate such boulders as might presumably be chalk, dredged from the northern parts of the North Sea during the operations of the s.s. Goldseeker, a vessel employed by the North Sea Fisheries Commission, and he has kindly permitted me to include a description of the boulders found by the Goldseeker in the details of this paper.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 35 , 1915 , pp. 263 - 296
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1915

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page 264 note * “On the Secondary Rocks of Scotland,” Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxiv, 1878, p. 728.

page 264 note † “The Geology of the Small Isles of Inverness-shire,” Memoir of the Geological Survey (Scotland, sheet 60), 1908, pp. 33–34.

page 264 note ‡ Geological Magazine, Dec. 4, vol. v, 1898, p. 21.

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page 264 note ║ This mass of Cretaceous rocks at Leavad has been proved by boring to rest on shelly Boulder clay.—J. HORNE.

page 264 note ¶ “The Cretaceous Kocks of Britain,” Memoir of the Geological Survey, vol. ii, 1903, p. 499, etc.

page 271 note * “The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain,” Mem. of the Geol. Survey, vol. ii, 1903, p. 500.

page 273 note * Fossil Sponge Spicules from the Upper Chalk, by G. J. Hinde, 8vo, Munich, 1880.

page 281 note * “Radiolaria in Chalk,” Q.J.G.S., li, 1895, pl. xxii.

page 284 note * “On the Occurrence of Cretaceous Fossils in Caithness,” Proc. Edin. Geol. Soc., vol. ix, part 4, 1909, p. 318. (See footnote, p. 264 of this paper.—J. H.)

page 285 note * Geological Magazine, Dec. 4, vol. v, 1898, p. 32.

page 286 note * “The Cretaceous Strata of County Antrim,” Q.J.G.S., vol. liii, 1897, p. 602.

page 289 note * Hume, W. F., “The Cretaceous Strata of County Antrim,” Q.J.G.S., vol. liii, 1897, p. 584.Google Scholar

page 289 note † “The Cretaceous Eocks of Britain,” Memoir of the Geological Survey, vol. ii, 1903, pp. 286, 309.

page 290 note * Building of the British Isles, 3rd ed., 1911, p. 284.

page 294 note * “Challenger” Reports, vol. ix.

page 294 note † Ibid., vol. ix, p. 725.

page 295 note * See “The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain,” Memoir of the Geological Survey, vol. ii, 1903, pp. 286 and 309.

page 296 note * Mr Hill's collection has been presented to the British Museum by Mrs Hill and Mr Arthur Hill.