This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... any importance has been noted in the sandy outliers of Sydmonton Common, Newtown Common, Burley Wood, and West Woodhay, to the south of the Enborne. "An irregularly-shaped outlier extends over Inkpen Common. The nature of the deposits is displayed in some sand-pits and natural sections at the western ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... any importance has been noted in the sandy outliers of Sydmonton Common, Newtown Common, Burley Wood, and West Woodhay, to the south of the Enborne. "An irregularly-shaped outlier extends over Inkpen Common. The nature of the deposits is displayed in some sand-pits and natural sections at the western extremity of the mass, and again in the shallow openings in the fir plantations, where pale pipeclays have been dug to the depth of about a yard, for supplying some potteries in the immediate neighbourhood, where a coarse ware is made from them. In the sand-pits at the north-eastern corner of the Common these beds consist of ferruginous, white and yellow sand, with numerous black carbonaceous spots, lines, and "The Geology of the London Basin," p. 312. ( Ibid., loc. cit. t Ibid., loc. cit. patches; and the details of the section, in descending order, are as follows: --"White, angular, and sub-angular gravel. / Black carbonaceous clayey sand, 2 inches. White clay, a good deal spotted with iron; generally white, but brown in some places and in others crimson; the whole Lower I forming a red-mottled clay which at first sight might be mis Bagshot taken for similar beds belonging to the Woolwich and Beading Beds. Series. White and yellowish-white sand acquiring a ferruginous-brown coating on the outer part of the mass." In a pit at Robbins Hole, near the schools, seven furlongs northeast of Inkpen church, Mr. Bennett noted some greenish sand which may, he thinks, belong to the Bracklesham Beds. That it is a dark yellow ferruginous sand with numerous grains of glauconite is probably the most that can be said of it. The occurrence of such grains in Lower Bagshot Beds is not unexampled, and this particular deposit, which is...
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1907. HMSO. Softback. Book-VG, spine darkened. 9.5x6. 150pp. 10 b/w figures. Memoirs of the Geological Survey England and Wales, explanation of sheet 267, representing an area of 216 square miles, belonging to Berkshire, Wiltshire and Hampshire.
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