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PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE EAST RIDING. 



the map and diagrammatic section, the foundation of our 

 geography may be taken in at a glance : — 



Table of Geological Formations Exposed in the 

 East Riding of Yorkshire. 



Where Exposed. 



Spm-n 



Near Selby 



Wold valleys 



Commons in Derwentld. 



Holderness, and coast"\ 

 of Filey Bay J 



Flambro' 



Wolds, Hessle, &c. ... 



Sand Dunes 



Warp 



Chalk gravels 



Peat 



Sands 



Recent and 

 - Post- 

 fflacial. 



Boulder clays & gravels Glacial 



C? 



Speeton 



Bottoms of Wold dales \ 



Upper chalk ] ^ 



Middle chak fCretaceou 



Lower chalk J , 53 



fNeocomian (Speeton l Lower -g 



\ clay) J Cretaceous j ^ 



2 \ 



S. Cave, & Burdale 

 Leavening 



/ 



Base of Wold Escarp-) 

 ments ... ... ■■■) 



Do., and South Cave ... 

 Do. , do. , &c. 



..'Jorth Cave 



Market Weighton 



Holme-on-Spalding 



Moor 



Kimeridge clay 



Upper Calcareous Grit 

 Coral Rag 

 Coralline Oolite 

 Lower Calcareous Grit 



Oxford clay 



Kelloways rock 

 Millepore limestone] 

 Estuarine sandstone.s 

 Dogger 



Upper Lias 

 Middle Lias 

 Lower Lias 



( Upper 

 I Oolite 



Middle 

 Oolite 



I Lower 

 j Oolite 



\ 



Lias 



Rhoetic Beds (?) 

 jKeuper (Upper New 

 ( Red sandstone) 



Triassic^ 



