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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13859821505).jpg OF LINCOLNSHIRE NEOCOMIAN <br> 243 <br> On the Lincoln and Louth railway is a cutting fig 3 near <br> Benniworth-Haven House which shows a thickness of 20 feet of <br> sands surmounted by the Ironstone about 9 feet in thickness <br> From the latter I have obtained a richer suite of fossils than from <br> anywhere else in the district ; they are not equally fine throughout <br> the deposit but are best preserved in a seam near the base <br> Fig 3 Sketch of Benniworth-Haven Cutting <br> a Lower Sands <br> b Ironstone <br> c Soil with flints from the drift <br> For the accompanying sketch of Benniworth-Haven cutting I am <br> indebted to Mr W Keeping M A Three divisions of the ironstone <br> may be noted viz 1 the better bed as described ; 2 lighter- <br> coloured more argillaceous and with cuboidal fracture ; 3 brown <br> crumbling stone <br> The Upper Sands are usually said to be unfossiliferous ; we have <br> been also unsuccessful in finding fossils therein except in the phos- <br> phatide nodules ; these are fragmentary probably derived and <br> scarcely specifically determinable The following genera however <br> occur Ammonites Pleurotomaria Requienia Modiola Oyprina <br> Myacites Pholadomya and Pholadidea Lithologically these no- <br> dules agree exactly with those from the Neocomian beds of the <br> Bedford and Cambridgeshire area <br> The Upper Sands are well seen in the cutting at the west end of <br> Withcall tunnel fig 4 <br> Fig 4 Sketch of Cutting at West End of Withcall Tunnel <br> a Brownish and reddish-brown sands b Band of phosphatic nodules <br> c Line of ferruginous concretions d Eed Chalk 9 feet <br> e Greyish-white chalk 8 to 15 feet above the tunnel <br> / Bearranged red and white chalk <br> Fully 30 feet of the Upper Sands are here exposed ; they are very 36936020 113692 51125 Page 243 Text 38 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936020 1882 Geological Society of London NameFound Modiola NameConfirmed Modiola EOLID 71417 NameBankID 2647821 NameFound Myacites NameConfirmed Myacites NameBankID 4249365 NameFound Pholadidea NameConfirmed Pholadidea EOLID 71107 NameBankID 2694318 NameFound Pholadomya NameConfirmed Pholadomya EOLID 4744545 NameBankID 4294325 NameFound Pleurotomaria NameConfirmed Pleurotomaria EOLID 4793392 NameBankID 4302858 NameFound Requienia NameConfirmed Requienia EOLID 77754 NameBankID 1814940 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 38 1882 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36936020 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936020 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-15 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13859821505 2015-08-26 07 58 04 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1882 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script | ||||
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