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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13365290955).jpg 1850 <br> PRESTWICH ON THE LOWER TERTIARY STRATA <br> 269 <br> Cardiura nitens Sow <br> Plumsteadiense Sow <br> n sp a <br> Cytherea ovalis var Sow <br> Proceeding by Uxbridge to Watford occasional imperfect indications <br> of this bed are met with On the Birmingham Railway at Bushey <br> near Watford the mottled clays with the basement bed of the Lon- <br> don clay were exposed in a section which I was too late to see in a <br> good condition The superposition however was sufficiently appa- <br> rent The following organic remains were found there by the late <br> Dr James Mitchell ” <br> Cytherea obliqua Desk <br> Nucula <br> Panopsea intermedia Sow <br> Rostellaria Sowerbyi Mant <br> Diverging five miles to the south the chalk comes so near to the <br> surface in the valley at Pinner near Harrow that it is worked by <br> shafts sunk through the superincumbent tertiaries The followino- <br> is a section of one of these shafts See fig 14 ° <br> Fig 14 ” Section at Pinner <br> h London clay <br> 1 Large tabular septaria 2 Sands 3 <br> Pebble bed <br> d Mottled clays 1 and 2 with a few subordi- <br> nate beds of sands 3 4 Impure <br> green sands with green- coated flints <br> Chalk <br> The works were not in operation at the time I visited this spot and <br> I was unable to procure any of the fossils said to occur abundantly <br> in the stratum which I have marked c 1 <br> Passing eastward by Shenley Hill no good section of this bed <br> occurs until we reach a brick-field one mile east-south-east of Hat- <br> field and immediately adjoining the east side of Lord Sahsbury's <br> park This pit exposes a complete section from the lower part of 36934124 113689 51125 Page 269 Text v 6 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934124 1850 Geological Society of London NameFound Cardiura nitens NameFound Cytherea obliqua NameFound Cytherea ovalis NameFound Nucula NameConfirmed Nucula EOLID 10719654 NameBankID 2691879 NameFound Panopsea intermedia NameConfirmed Panopaea intermedia NameFound Rostellaria NameConfirmed Rostellaria EOLID 4873050 NameBankID 3940657 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 6 1850 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36934124 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36934124 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-23 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13365290955 2015-08-26 11 50 12 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1850 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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