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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13889770308).jpg DRIFT-DEPOSITS OF COLtVTN BAT 103 <br> Trarcls the outward curve which rests on the hills and thickening <br> towards the Bay <br> Fig 2 ” Section West of Jig 1 <br> 1 Bluish-grey Till ; and 2 Cream-coloured Till as in fig 1 <br> 3 Sand 4 Brown Bonlder-clay <br> 5 Finely laminated Boulder-clay 6 Brown Boulder-clay 7 Soil <br> The drift may be roughly grouped into three divisions in ascend- <br> ing order as follows ” <br> 1 Bluish-grey Till bedl figs 1 2 hard and tough evidently <br> composed of the combined grindings or decomposed particles of the <br> Silurian and limestone rocks and fnll of striated slaty rocks lime- <br> stone Carboniferous grits conglomerates and trappean and ash <br> rocks common to North Wales <br> This Till is not visible between the Colwyn-Bay station and the <br> road under the railway from Old Colwyn but between the latter <br> place and Colwyn Head may be seen a mixed grey and brown Till <br> It may be seen on the foreshore opposite the Colwyn-Bay Hotel <br> and from thence appears at various points rising up in bosses in <br> the cliff sections until we reach Ehos village It may also be seen <br> on the foreshore opposite the cottage west of the hotel fig 1 <br> Prom Ehos point westward to the embankment across the marsh <br> it may be traced At one point here I observed a very large lime- <br> stone block imbedded in it The Till continues from the west end <br> of the embankment to the Little Orme's Head <br> The surface of the Till which everywhere excepting on the fore- <br> shore is overlain by the Brown Boulder- clay presently to be de- <br> scribed possesses an uneven denuded surface and is in places <br> covered with a cream-coloured deposit packed with stones appa- <br> rently the wash of the Till below one or two feet thick as the case <br> may be 2 figs 1 2 <br> I looked for granite boulders in this Till ; but though they were <br> not unfrequent on the foreshore I could not find any actually <br> imbedded but I had no opportunity of making an exhaustive 37046945 114009 51125 Page 103 Text 41 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046945 1885 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 41 1885 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 37046945 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046945 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13889770308 2015-08-26 04 54 49 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1885 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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