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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12960188103).jpg OP THE N W MrDL iXD AND EASTERN COUNTIES <br> 183 <br> This deposit I have hitherto been led to regard as a southerly con- <br> tinuation of the Lower Boulder-clay of Lancashire Cheshire c <br> see my former paper and the concluding part of this paper <br> Drift- <br> around Nuneaton Coventry Kenilworth and <br> Leamington <br> In this area the drift-matrix consists of redistributed local shale <br> clay or marl belonging to the Triassic Permian or Carboniferous <br> formations The stones in addition to quartzose and other pebbles <br> consist of flints a few chalk fragments and erratics from the Pennine <br> hills Charnwood forest HartshiU and fragments or fossils of Jurassic <br> rocks These erratics which chieiiy came from the north and east are <br> commonly imbedded in what is locally called top clay of a brown or <br> red colour which graduates downwards into underlying marl shale <br> c This clay contains chalk flints rather fitfully distributed but <br> generally very little chalk debris In one of the Kenilworth gravel- <br> pits the redeposited Triassic pebbles intermixed with large angnlar <br> chalk flints and coal-dust graduate downwards into a pell-mell local <br> boulder-loam which is probably the equivalent of the Wolverhampton <br> and Stafl'ord Boulder-clay t Lillington near Leamington in <br> 1865 the red marl with a few stones near its surface was overlain <br> by a mass of stratified fine gravel consisting of Triassic pebbles <br> Gn/phites c above which there was a considerable thickness of <br> obliquely laminated fine sand surmounted by 2 feet of clay with <br> pebbles see fig 2 In 1878 no section was exposed lower down <br> Fig 2 ” Section at Lillington near Leamington <br> A Compact clay <br> C Fine gravel <br> B Laminated Sand <br> D Eed marl <br> than the fine sand At the Stoke-Heath clay-pits near Coventry <br> the clay which contained a large boulder probably from Charnwood <br> forest here and there graduated into gravel on the same horizon <br> and contained a few but only a few chalk-f -agments and chalk- <br> flints Around Nuneaton the clay with trap boulders contained <br> many flint chips and small Triassic pebbles but scarcely any chalk; <br> and the specimens of the clay I brought away with me did not <br> efi'crvesce with ordinary tests Xear Ilugby railway-station March <br> 1870 the matrix of the drift seemed to be locally derived clay chiefly 36090526 111264 51125 Page 183 Text 36 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36090526 1880 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 36 1880 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36090526 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36090526 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-06 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12960188103 2015-08-26 16 56 23 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1880 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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