This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... pathway. The Boulder Clay is overlaid by loam in places, but comes nearly to the surface near the church. Reddish-brown loam, containing coarse subangular flints, was exposed in an excavation made for the drainage-pipes, about three eighths of a mile S. of the church, and running in an easterly direction to the road ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... pathway. The Boulder Clay is overlaid by loam in places, but comes nearly to the surface near the church. Reddish-brown loam, containing coarse subangular flints, was exposed in an excavation made for the drainage-pipes, about three eighths of a mile S. of the church, and running in an easterly direction to the road leading to the level-crossing a quarter of a mile S.S.W. of the railway station. The loam overlaid the Boulder Clay in a very irregular manner, generally being from 4 to 6 feet in thickness but sometimes more. The above excavation was 16 feet in depth, and the pipes rested on Boulder Clay, which was not penetrated. Seaming.--In a gravel-pit about a mile and a quarter S.S.E. of the church, and south-west of Seaming Old Hall, the following section was exposed: --Soil------1 to 3 feet. f'lacifl.1 f Boulder Clay---1 to 3 D ift 1 Gravel, mostly of flints-8 n ' I Sand, light-buff, with small flints-3J The beds undulated considerably, those nearest the road-cutting dipping towards it. There was no passage between the gravel and the Boulder Clay, but a marked lice between them. Many of the stones in the gravel were about 6 inches in diameter, and were in a matrix of small gravel, all being much worn. Amongst the intermixed boulders observed were some of basalt, much rounded and decomposed; of Lias Limestone containing Ammonites; of ferruginous concretionary nodules; many of Coal Measure (?) sandstones and grits, and of chert containing casts of fossils, &c. East Bradenham.--A large sand-pit half a mile W. of the church, on the northern side of the road, showed about 15 feet of well stratified sand, the upper 8 feet of an orange-colour, with a little buff in places, and containing a few patches and seams of angular and subangular flin...
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