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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13365306705).jpg 272 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Jan 23 <br> The next section is at Whitton Street two and a half miles north- <br> west of Ipswich In some fields to the westward of the high road <br> there are two pits one of which exhibits the following section See <br> fig 19 <br> Fig 19 ” Section near Ipswich <br> « Mixed clay and gravel <br> b London clay; brown and occasionally light bluish-grey clay <br> with a few small ferruginous concretions passing down into <br> slightly micaceous brown clay laminated with ochreous and <br> yellow sand No fossils <br> c Round flint pebbles ” 1 to 10 inches in diameter ” in ochreous <br> sand and brown clay Teeth of Lamna not uncommon No <br> other fossils <br> Light ash-coloured sand with a few small clayey concretions <br> No fossils <br> The chalk is not here reached but it crops out at a short distance <br> lower down the hill and at a level of not exceeding thirty to forty feet <br> below stratum c There are some pits adjoining Ipswich near the <br> Woodbridge road which exhibit sections of the London clay over- <br> lying sands which I believe to belong to the lower Eocene series I <br> have not examined these pits in detail <br> Passing on toWoodbridge we arrive at a distance of one mile south <br> from this town and on the banks of the river at the Kyson brick- <br> field a spot well known by the circumstance of the teeth of the <br> Monkey having been found there The exact position of the bed in <br> which these remains occur has been considered rather problematical <br> but I have little doubt that it belongs to the basement bed of the <br> London clayf See fig 20 <br> Fig 20 ” Section at KysonX- <br> b London clay Above this clay and a little higher <br> on the slope of the hill the red crag crops out <br> Round flint pebbles in yellow sand Teeth of <br> LamncB common ; those of a species of Monkey <br> rare This crops out on the level of the river <br> Light- coloured sands ; depth unknown Large <br> Ostrece said to occur in some concretions in the <br> upper part of this bed <br> Owen Annals Nat Hist vol iv p 191 <br> t It has been already assigned by several geologists to the beds beneath the <br> London clay <br> t T cannot quite depend upon this section as I have mislaid my original notes <br> of it 36934127 113689 51125 Page 272 Text v 6 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934127 1850 Geological Society of London NameFound Lamna NameConfirmed Lamna EOLID 24907 NameBankID 4935667 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 6 1850 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36934127 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934127 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-23 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13365306705 2015-08-26 11 54 52 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1850 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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