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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13204666573).jpg NOETH-WEST OE EXGLAjSTD AND XOETH WALES <br> 91 <br> here for of a mile the Boulder- <br> clay was split in two by a persistent <br> seam of sand N not more than <br> 6 inches thick ; the surface of the <br> clay and the imbedded seam of <br> sand followed pretty closely the <br> contour of the rock 0 below The <br> remainder of the cutting showed <br> also ; <br> a seam of sand P <br> but it <br> was not so denned and appeared <br> to thin out to nothing at either end <br> or lose itself in indefinable divi- <br> sions or ramifications P' <br> Shell-fragments were in the <br> sand-seam The base of the clay <br> rested on the usual red sand Q <br> degraded from the rock below <br> Nearer Warrington there was a <br> cutting in the Boulder-clay; but <br> it presented no features to indivi- <br> dualize it <br> Wigan Junction Railway ” <br> These sections are described in <br> my paper On a Section through <br> Glazebrook Moss Quart Journ <br> Geol Soc vol xxxiv pp 808- <br> 810 The same feature of a divi- <br> sional seam of sand shows in the <br> cutting ; but a bed of book- <br> leaf clay 18 inches thick 8 feet <br> from the surface and a quarter <br> of a mile long distinguishes the <br> section <br> Cheshire Lines from Hunt's Cross <br> to Aintree ” I examined the sec- <br> tions along this railway while it <br> was being made in 1876-7 The <br> same peculiarities occur at the base <br> of the clay where it is seen resting <br> on the rock viz red sand and oc- <br> casional gravel-beds There were <br> a few seams of sand in the clay <br> itself ; but there was nothing pe- <br> culiar to mark these sections from <br> the last <br> About Liverpool ” Excavations <br> in the City of Liverpool show the <br> Boulder- clay resting on the red <br> sand ; and I have seen very large <br> erratics taken out of them It <br> <br> 5-3 <br> rs <br> ow <br> 2 W <br> 3 o <br> 09 <br> s <br> 00 <br> r <br> CD <br> B' 36928672 113681 51125 Page 91 Text 39 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36928672 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 36928672 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36928672 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 N02/13204666573 2015-08-26 13 55 23 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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