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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13889288610).jpg 610 <br> LIEn -COL H H GODWIX-ArSTEX OX THE <br> gravels and sands of Shalford Common east of Stouebridge Bradstone <br> Brook c all deposited since a further excavation of the valley took <br> place Xear Chilworth Station on the South-Eastern line of railway <br> we have some gravels as high as 200 ft ; these might be referred to <br> the age of the Guildford sands We may also refer to these last <br> certain high-level sands indicated thus by my father loc cit p 115 <br> fig 1 ” ' ˘ The gravel beds pass into fine sand horizontally bedded <br> in the valley west of Pease Marsh where the dotting of the plan is <br> discontinued These I have not had time to examine and I do not <br> know the level at which they occur <br> Eeturning to the upper gravels g in section fig 1 derived ex- <br> clusively from the Chalk it is at once evident that this enormous <br> quantity of flints did not arrive from the side of the gorge It <br> points to some such change of drainage-hnes or conditions as to <br> render the gorge of the Wey no longer an outlet to the north and <br> to a transport of materials derived from the Chalk and Tertiary for- <br> mations all along the north face of the hills here that is the Xorth <br> Downs The alternate beds of loam and flints are so regular and <br> horizontal in places that still water seems indicated ; while in <br> other places see fig 7 the displacement of the beds indicates <br> great pressure and lateral pushing combined with a semifluid state <br> remarkably like the glacial deposits of Alpine valleys This section <br> is very similar to fig 2 at AVilton Salisbury given by Professor <br> Prestwich Quart Journ Geol Soc vol xi p 102 <br> The occurrence of land-shells in the loamy sands indicates that <br> these have been brought down from off the old land- surface they <br> lived upon This part of the section where the beds are so very <br> coarse and irregular and nearer to the chalk fig 7 shows as <br> Fig 7 ” Section on XortJi side of Line at 15 milts 9 75 cJunns 8 yards <br> from London Road Bridge west side Scale inch to 1 foot <br> w <br> ' -' - <br> a a' Pale grey chalky loam <br> h b' Large flints all more or less broken <br> c Sand coarse earthy <br> Shells of Helix and Pvpa <br> The arrow shows the direction of the Drift 36941445 113697 51125 Page 610 Text 40 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941445 1884 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 40 1884 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36941445 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941445 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13889288610 2015-08-26 05 56 38 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1884 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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