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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12683255975).jpg 372 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY June 4 <br> Fig 2 Section across the River-valley at Leicester <br> Length about 5 miles <br> N <br> ts a <br> p ; <br> a <br> i '3 <br> 7 Gravels and clays with bones boulders c <br> 6 Lias <br> 5 Upper marls <br> 4 Upper sandstone-shales <br> 3 Middle sandstone soft beds J Upper Keuper <br> 2 Lower sandstone-shales <br> 1 Red clay <br> i <br> Note In this section the Marls No 5 are not represented suffi- <br> ciently thick whilst Nos 4 6 are proportionally too thick <br> Combining the data afforded by sections south and north of the <br> river-valley the following table will show the position and extent of <br> the Upper Keuper beds from the base of the Lias to the Red Clay <br> in descending order <br> Lias <br> a <br> Upper Keuper marls containing beds of gypsum and <br> several thin bands of green marly sandstone on which <br> are found numerous pseudomorphic salt-crystals ; <br> thickness from 80 to 120 feet <br> b Thin sandy shales with way-boards of green marl ; <br> 25 to 30 feet <br> c Thick soft beds of white sandstone 20 to 30 feet <br> d Thin sandy shales similar to 5 ; 35 feet <br> Total about 200 feet <br> Red clay <br> It is considered that on the north and north-west side of the river- <br> valley the whole of the beds « 5 5 4 of the Section fig 2 <br> and part of c have been denuded and a large accumulation of drift- <br> clay gravel and alluvium deposited on the thick soft beds and pro- <br> bably where that is entirely denuded on the lower shales d to the <br> thickness in some places of from 60 to 80 feet <br> Most of the fossils contained in the following list were collected <br> from the well-boring in the town excepting one very fine detached <br> tooth which was found in the thick beds at the railway -cutting 35338827 109655 51125 Page 372 Text v 12 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338827 1856 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 12 1856 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35338827 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338827 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12683255975 2015-08-27 11 57 18 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1856 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FÊ using a script | ||||
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