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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13204703553).jpg 104 <br> T M KEADE ON THE DEIFT-BEDS OE THE <br> compact bine Till A full of scratched Carboniferous-limestone boul- <br> ders and pebbles <br> Fig 22 ” Section in the left bank of the Calder near Cock Bridge <br> Surface of water <br> A Hard compact blue Till <br> C Sand mixed with blue clay <br> B Boulder-bed <br> The limestone boulders are irregularly scratched ; and the stones <br> are paitiaHy rounded It precisely resembles a Till very commonly <br> met with in the west of Ireland in Galway and Clew Bays This <br> bed is remarkable as containing stones not found in the basin of the <br> Calder ; and it appears to have been forced up through a comparatively <br> narrow gorge from the Bibble basin At Mitton Bridge on both <br> banks of the Bibble a rounded-boulder drift principally limestone <br> is seen resting upon a blue limestone Till similar to that just de- <br> scribed as occurring on the Calder The whole are seen to rest on <br> Carboniferous shales <br> Ascending the valley of the Bibble we find the Drift changes to a <br> more moraine-like character At Bibble Bank a gravel-pit on the <br> right of the road from Settle to Houghton contains boulders of both <br> dark- and light-coloured Mountain Limestone often fossiliferous in- <br> termixed with hard grit and some sandstones in a matrix of Macadam- <br> like gravel At the Craven Lime Company's quarries nearer <br> Moughton some very interesting sections were disclosed which I <br> give Fig 23 shows moraine-like hard calcareous Till standing <br> Fig 23 ” Section in the Craven Lime Company's Quarries between <br> Moughton and Settle <br> A Till with boulders <br> B Angular limestone gravel <br> with a vertical face The boulders in A A are mostly of light- <br> Since writing this I find Mr Tidcleman points out tbattbere is in the gorge <br> of the Calder a roche moutonnee well scratched and also considers that the <br> course of the ice was up the river and southwards Q J G S 1872 p 479 36928685 113681 51125 Page 104 Text 39 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36928685 1883 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 39 1883 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36928685 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36928685 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-16 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13204703553 2015-08-26 13 54 24 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1883 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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