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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13860132385).jpg 722 <br> SEARLES V WOOD ON THE NEWER <br> chalk on the beach gave rise <br> to the irregular seams of loam <br> with land-shells described by <br> Prof Prestwich as overlying <br> and intermingled with these <br> blocks in the buried beaches of <br> Sangatte and Portland ; and <br> the pressure of the floes re- <br> peated year after year probably <br> forced this accumulation more <br> thickly against the cliffs so <br> that the upper part turned over <br> on itself; or it may have been <br> that floes thus driven on to the <br> shore became buried under loam <br> before they could thaw and so <br> became part of the permanently <br> frozen soil as is the case with <br> sheets of ancient flood-water <br> still remaining as ice in the <br> mudbanks of the Siberian <br> rivers from which the Mam- <br> moth carcasses have been de- <br> tached If so the thawing of <br> this ice after the glaciation <br> passed away would have let <br> down the loam c accumu- <br> lated over these floes and <br> around their edges and so pos- <br> sibly have given rise to the <br> distorted appearance which the <br> accumulation exhibits in Mr <br> Prestwich's cut of Portland <br> buried cliff <br> By permission of the Coun- <br> cil I also give here the late <br> Mr Trimmer's cut of the brick- <br> field at Gaytonthorpe in West <br> Norfolk <br> The beds d e and /of Mr <br> Trimmer's section are he con- <br> sidered and as I think also <br> a freshwater continuation at <br> proportionally higher level of <br> the Nar brickearth ; and <br> therefore like the Avisford <br> sand of the age of the Gyrena- <br> formation ; and like that they <br> are overlain and penetrated by <br> the atmospheric formation of <br> O <br> c <br> et- <br> l <br> 1 <br> 5q <br> <br> rs <br> o <br> § <br> 5 <br> c <br> Q <br> 5 <br> <br> o <br> £ <br> ; <br> o <br> <br> <br> te <br> s <br> oc <br> ts <br> © <br> <br> Si <br> CD <br> 5 <br> et- <br> <br> c <br> o <br> <br> p <br> -+ <br> OS <br> p <br> Oi <br> B <br> c <br> 1 <br> N <br> O <br> S3 <br> ©1 <br> P_ <br> <br> T ri <br> hi <br> a <br> o <br> p <br> B <br> fV <br> s <br> InL <br> B <br> O d <br> O <br> a <br> CD <br> et <br> a 1 <br> O <br> bJ <br> ” i <br> H <br> m <br> g <br> «H <br> a <br> fcr <br> H 36936559 113692 51125 Page 722 Text 38 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936559 1882 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 38 1882 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36936559 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936559 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-15 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13860132385 2015-08-26 07 55 57 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1882 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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