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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13204841444).jpg NORTH-WEST OF ENGLAND AND NORTH WALES t J <br> occurs at Tranmere Pool and at Hooton thus bearing ont the in- <br> ferences drawn from the Lancashire side <br> At Upton in May 1873 I examined with Mr Shone a san dhole <br> which showed a section of current-bedded sand and gravel with <br> rolled pebbles of Red Sandstone mixed with erratic pebbles fig 8 <br> in it the usual shell-fragments occurred The whole was overlain <br> by a thin bed of Boulder-clay of irregular thickness containing only <br> a small proportion of stones I have very seldom found rolled <br> pebbles of Triassic rocks except in some of the clay of the dock- <br> excavations on the Lancashire side ; and this is worth bearing in mind <br> The same section excepting that the sand is of a flesh- or reddish <br> colour generally was to be seen at the Backford sandhole Here <br> the valley is about 50 feet deep and must formerly have been <br> filled with sand which Las been denuded <br> Fig 8 ” Section in Sandpit Upton <br> mm <br> a Sands and gravels <br> b Bed of gravel containing many rounded pebbles of red sandstone <br> c Current-bedded sands containing beds of gravel in which are many <br> fragments of shells especially in the gravel <br> d Boulder-clay with few stones <br> Hehby and Frodsham ” Ascending the Mersey the Boulder-clay <br> skirts the foot of the Helsby and Frodsham hills which overlook the <br> upper marshes of the Mersey When however we follow the <br> valleys which ramify among these hills we find they are largely <br> filled with a sandy drift not unlike that at Backford A section <br> disclosed by a well I sunk at the late Mr George Eastee's house <br> about a mile from Helsby showed 20 feet of yellow flesh-coloured <br> and red sand evidently arranged by water with a seam of clay <br> about the middle of it the whole resting on soft rock <br> On the northern face of Helsby Hill about halfway up a cutting <br> at the side of a road showed the following section fig 9 the rela- <br> tion of the Drift to the escarpment of Helsby Hill being shown in <br> fig 10 <br> Valley of the Weaver ” From Frodsham up to the Grand Junction <br> Yiaduct the river Weaver runs through a deep valley cut in the <br> Buried valley of the Mersey Proc of Greol Soc of Liverpool Session <br> 1872-73 36928674 113681 51125 Page 93 Text 39 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36928674 1883 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 39 1883 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36928674 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36928674 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-16 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13204841444 2015-08-26 13 55 28 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1883 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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