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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12735675005).jpg LATER TERTIARY GEOLOGY OF EAST ANGLIA <br> 93 <br> Fig 14 __ Section XIV across the Tese Valley Length 4 miles <br> Yortical scale 17£ times the horizontal <br> Brick-pit 5 furl <br> W N W of <br> Site of Shottesham <br> church mill <br> River <br> Tese <br> Deep exca- <br> vation in Pit on <br> Sheets Shottesham <br> Hill Common <br> E <br> 1 5 6 7 8 as in fig o <br> 4 Remnants of the Chillesford beds and Fluvio-marine Crag <br> 10 Postglacial valley-gravel and recent alluvium <br> On both sides of the Tese valley the high ground is occupied by <br> the Upper Glacial clay which conceals every thing ; but we feel little <br> doubt that the Contorted Drift is present in thickness beneath it the <br> denudation having operated mostly along the lines of the valleys <br> which have afterwards been re-excavated postglacially The dotted <br> lines which continue the line of section XIY at its eastward extremity <br> indicate our view in this respect ; and in fact if the section which <br> we have given across the Tese were continued south-eastwards to <br> the valley of the Waveney at Bungay protrusions of the Contorted <br> Drift thus underlying the high ground between would be encoun- <br> tered at Headenham <br> The only river-valley of East Norfolk remaining to be noticed is <br> that of the Ket which river falls into the Yare eight miles west of <br> Yarmouth The features of this valley differ from those of the <br> Tese in the more general presence of the Contorted Drift which <br> comes out pretty regularly along both its sides <br> The Pebbly Sands underlying it are also in great thickness ; and to <br> the east of Loddon they form masses of shingle which however are <br> not oblique-bedded as are the similar masses near Halesworth and <br> Henham The following is a section across the Ket valley <br> Fig 15 - <br> W N W <br> -Section XV across the Ket Valley Length 2\ miles <br> Yertical scale 17 \ times the horizontal <br> Pit ofurl <br> E by S <br> E S E <br> References as in fi£ 5 35818196 110705 51125 Page 93 Text 33 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818196 1877 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 33 1877 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35818196 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818196 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-24 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12735675005 2015-08-26 20 01 08 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1877 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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