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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (14053250996).jpg 66 <br> S V WOOD ON A NEW DEPOSIT OF PLIOCENE A E <br> fossiliferous clav rests but abandoned some ten years since In <br> 1881 clay being required for the puddling of a dock wbicb was <br> then being constructed at Penzance the excavations were at his <br> instance renewed the upper yellow and unfossiliferous clay into <br> which the blue clay yielding the shells passes upwards being found <br> suitable for this purpose ; since which the pits have again fallen <br> into disuse It was during this renewal of the excavations that <br> Mr Whitley visited them obtained the shells mentioned in his paper <br> and recorded the sections in his note-book from which the one I <br> herewith give fig 1 is taken Mr Cornish exhibited at the Jubilee <br> Fig 1 ” Pit near St Ertli Vicarage from the JSlote-BooTc of <br> Mr NicJiolas Wliitlei/ of Truro <br> 1 Surface-soii <br> 2 Clayey loam full of angular stoBes pitched at all angles but mostly upright <br> 3 to 5 feet This is probablv the formation described under the letter y in <br> my ISTewer Pliocene Memoir in Quart Journ Geol Soc vol xsxviii p 720 <br> mider -vrhich the ancient beaches of the south coast are buried and which <br> has a great extension in Cornwall <br> 3 Stones cemented with oxide of iron c 6 to 12 inches <br> 4 Tenacious yellow clay with unrecognizable fragments of some bivalve shell <br> passing down into ” <br> 5 Blue clay very irregidar 3 to 5 feet and more in places and containing <br> marine shells <br> 6 Fine sand base rot exposed but described by the workmen as having gravel <br> and rubble at bottom resting on rock <br> meeting of the Falmouth Polytechnic Institution in 1882 some <br> specimens of the shells but the first and only scientific notice <br> which has been given of the bed is a short paper by Mr jSTicholas <br> Whitley published in the Transactions of the Eoyal Geological <br> Society of Cornwall for January 1882 entitled On the Evidence <br> of Glacial Action in Cornwall in which he incidentally refers to the <br> St Erth bed and gives a list of ten species of MoUusca that he had <br> obtained from it and had submitted to Mr G P Sowerby Junior for <br> identification <br> On my writing to Mr Whitley and pointing out to him that he <br> had been mistaken in referring the bed to Glacial age he not only 37046904 114009 51125 Page 66 Text 41 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046904 1885 Geological Society of London NameFound Ertli NameConfirmed Ertli NameBankID 5136564 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 41 1885 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 37046904 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046904 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 N02/14053250996 2015-08-26 04 56 06 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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