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Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12826300415).jpg 210 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY June 17 <br> When both lie nearly horizontal they appear to be conformable as <br> in the cliff about one mile south of Kustenjeh Here I saw in <br> ascending order 1st 10 feet of a greenish-grey marl with indurated <br> nodules of marlstone and sometimes chalky nodules but not derived <br> apparently from any foreign locality ; also crystals of gypsum and <br> casts of a Cyclas or Cyrena ; 2nd an indurated band from 2 inches <br> to 1 foot thick filled with casts of a small Paludina ; 3rd 5 or 6 feet <br> of grey marl with bands of marlstone ; 4th 20 feet of greenish-grey <br> marls with broken layers of marlstone forming slabs and nodules <br> in which are found casts of a bivalve CylasV also an occasional <br> Fig 5 <br> Section of part of the Cliff half a mile South-west of <br> Kustenjeh <br> 3 Brown and reddish marls continuing to the height of <br> 70 feet above <br> gr r p ” - jz ~ 2 Dark-brown clay with chalky nodules <br> 1 Reddish- white light marl <br> 5 Greenish-grey marl with Helices <br> 4 Greenish-grey marls with Helix and Cyrena <br> 3 Grey marl and marlstone <br> 2 Band of small Paludina <br> 1 Greenish marl with nodules ; Cyrena <br> J <br> About <br> ' 30 feet <br> Helix similar to the one found in the freshwater deposits over <br> Baljik ; 5th a more indurated stratum of the greenish-grey marls <br> from 2 to 3 feet thick and replete with Helices This is also some- <br> times pisolitic and its indurated character is evidently due to the <br> aggregation of the fossils The shells probably were not accumu- <br> lated by any violent action of the waters from currents or drift but <br> lived at the bottom during a late period of the lake when it seems <br> to have been very shallow and perhaps in consequence subject to <br> stronger superficial currents from local winds and local torrents <br> Hence the associated land- shells and lacustrine shells were thus <br> mingled together in accidental groups ; as no doubt must occur often <br> at the bottom of shallow tideless waters proximate to land prolific with <br> vegetation and land-shells This condition must have existed on the <br> old chalk-ridges that formerly bordered the lake not far from these <br> Quart Journ Geol Soc vol xiii p 77 36214178 111684 51125 Page 210 Text v 14 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36214178 1858 Geological Society of London NameFound Cyclas NameConfirmed Cyclas EOLID 13750058 NameBankID 4131942 NameFound Cyrena NameConfirmed Cyrena EOLID 4757476 NameBankID 4134596 NameFound Paludina NameConfirmed Paludina EOLID 13750342 NameBankID 4274573 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 14 1858 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36214178 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36214178 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-28 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12826300415 2015-08-26 17 56 14 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1858 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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