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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (14076822634).jpg 12 <br> D PIDGEOX ON EECENT DISCOTEEIES <br> the clays in which the forest is rooted are either coeval with <br> or younger than the bronze age in Britain <br> The map fig 1 exhibits that part of Torbay which is occupied <br> by Goodrington Paignton and Preston Sands upon the first and <br> last of which the finds which are about to be described were made <br> Eeferring in the first place to Preston Sands these fringe a fiat <br> marshy valley which excavated in Triassic sandstones and conglo- <br> merates and falling seaward with an extremely gentle slope <br> extends from Redclifi'e Towers at A to Preston Lane at B fig 1 <br> The gales of December 1883 and Pebruary 1884 stripped nearly <br> all the shingle off the upper half of the tidal strand between these <br> two points A B exposing the outcrops shown upon the plan <br> fig 2 The forest-clay K was then seen to extend in a continuous <br> Pig 2 ” Plaii of Outcrops ohserved on Preston Sands A to B on <br> fig 1 December 1883 to February 1884 Scale 340 feet to <br> 1 inch <br> sheet of no great thickness from Redclifi'e Towers to Preston Lane <br> while its seaward edge instead of extending beyond low-water <br> mark as in the neighbouring inlets of Goodiington Torre Abbey <br> Paignton and Broad Sands has been truncated by the action of the <br> sea and is now confined to the limits shown upon the plan <br> Inland the clay bed forms a flat basin whose northern lip rising <br> with the fiank of the valley thins out to nothing at B about seven <br> feet above high-water mark while its southern lip has been denuded <br> together vrith the Trias rock upon which it rests to the level of the <br> sea Of the inland lip of this basin more hereafter <br> The clay reposes directly upon the Trias at A figs 1 2 while <br> further north it lies upon a somewhat remarkable breccia or head <br> L fig 2 which caps the Trias conformably from about the point C <br> for a considerable distance northwards of Preston Lane This breccia <br> which together with the forest- clay underlying Preston Sands has <br> been minutely described by Mr Pengelly consists of unstratified <br> angular and loosely aggregated stones packed without order or <br> arrangement in a clayey matrix The stones have nearly all been <br> derived from a neighbouring hill of Devonian sandstone whence <br> Trans Dev Assoc for 1878 37046852 114009 51125 Page 12 Text 41 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046852 1885 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 41 1885 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 37046852 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046852 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14076822634 2015-08-26 04 57 28 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1885 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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