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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12735888683).jpg F W HARMER ON THE KESSINGLAND CLIFF-SECTION <br> 137 <br> The bed No 4 is the Middle <br> Glacial sand with fine shingle <br> bands which is generally present <br> in the district It rests upon <br> the nearly horizontal surface of <br> the beds Nos 1 2 and 3 from <br> end to end of the section except <br> in one place near the Pakefield- <br> Lighthouse gorge where it cuts <br> through No 1 to the beach-line <br> for the space of a few yards <br> For the greater part of the dis- <br> tance from Kessingland to the <br> Lighthouse gorge the Middle <br> Glacial sands No 4 are overlain <br> by the chalky Boulder- clay of <br> East Anglia or Upper Glacial <br> No 5 which here presents its <br> usual features <br> I am thus altogether at a loss <br> to discover that sequence of beds <br> which Mr Gunn has recently <br> described The marine shells <br> and cetacean bones mentioned in <br> the section given by him as oc- <br> curring in the Chillesford Clay <br> have never yet been found in <br> that bed in the Kessingland cliff ; <br> and I know of no evidence what- <br> ever to justify him in the asser- <br> tion that the Norwich Crag with <br> its marine and freshwater shells <br> is there represented No marine <br> mollusca so far as I know have <br> ever been found there at all <br> So far also from proving that <br> the Forest-bed is older than the <br> Crag the evidence of this section <br> appears to me to point the other <br> way It would seem that the <br> mammaliferous mottled clay No <br> 2 was deposited either by a <br> river or a lake whose northern <br> bank at least was formed by <br> the Chillesford Clay exposed at <br> the Lighthouse gorge at the <br> Pakefield end of the section that <br> this mammaliferous clay after- <br> wards became sufficiently dry to <br> allow it to be covered with vegcta- <br> <br> r <br> s <br> <br> I <br> 5~' <br> © <br> – s <br> © <br> © <br> Ph <br> CO <br> © <br> bb <br> © <br> ¢--- i ” i <br> to <br> © <br> © <br> I <br> i <br> bh <br> ¢i ”i <br> P4 <br> -5 2r <br> M <br> 1 ai <br> will <br> CO <br> i l <br> CO O <br> ° <br> go <br> © bfl ¢ <br> S SO <br> a o <br> © 3 <br> rC CO 03 <br> © -£ 3 <br> S H <br> C3 83 <br> 4 <br> M <br> -H <br> o O <br> <br> O v ” ' <br> <br> c - d c <br> rH « « <br> CM CO <br> C3 83 <br> t oq co <br> o © © <br> T © © <br> © a d <br> 73 CO GO <br> - D JO <br> © © a <br> -d -d <br> h oi co 35818240 110705 51125 Page 137 Text 33 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818240 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 35818240 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818240 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 N02/12735888683 2015-08-26 19 58 46 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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