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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12961280663).jpg 1869 <br> WILTSHIRE HUNSTANTON EED CHALK <br> 185 <br> 2 On the Ued Chalk of Hunstanton By the Rev T Wiltshire <br> M A FX S F G S <br> Not far from the apex of the angle which the Wash opening out <br> into the German Ocean forms on the western coast of Norfolk is <br> situated a cliff of about a mile in rr m - <br> 1 i J rr / A i i- ˘ V ˘ u - Section of Hunstanton L lilt <br> length and 50 or 60 feet m height ™¦' <br> on which at its greatest elevation <br> is erected the Hunstanton Light- <br> house This headland which gra- <br> dually rises from the low ground <br> on the north and finally sinks <br> towards the south through the <br> effect of local denudation is re- <br> markable even when viewed from <br> a distance from the circumstance <br> that its face is marked by three <br> parallel coloured bands slightly <br> inclined and cropping out in suc- <br> cession on the surface soil of <br> which bands the uppermost is <br> white the next bright red and <br> the lowest yellow each division <br> being sharply defined mthout any <br> intermingling of tints at the lines <br> of contact A close inspection <br> shows that the highest stratum <br> the white consists of a hard cal- <br> careous substance compact in tex- <br> ture and much shattered and <br> fissured originally deposited in <br> such a manner that its materials <br> were arranged in definite layers <br> two of which a 6 those forming <br> the base are represented in the <br> annexed section drawn to scale <br> The first of these a in thickness <br> about 2 feet 6 inches is noticeable <br> for the presence of an enormous <br> quantity of fragments of Inocerami <br> dispersed throughout its whole ex- <br> tent and which under the influ- <br> ence of weathering impart to this <br> portion of the cliff a jagged and <br> rough appearance Its character- <br> istic fossils are spines of Cidaris <br> vesiculosa Holaster planus Ver- <br> micularia umbonata Terehratulina <br> A thickness of upwards of 30 feet is here omitted for convenience 36103030 111288 51125 Page 185 Text v 25 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36103030 1869 Geological Society of London NameFound Cidaris vesiculosa NameConfirmed Cidaris vesiculosa NameFound Holaster planus NameConfirmed Holaster planus NameFound Terehratulina Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 25 1869 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36103030 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36103030 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 N02/12961280663 2015-08-26 15 54 16 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1869 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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