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STRUCTURE OF ISLAND OF MOEN : 



CHAP. XVII. 



drift consists of the following subdivisions, beginning with 

 the lowest : 



No. 2. Stratified loam and sand, five feet thick, containing 

 at one spot, near the base of the cliff at s, fig. 48, Cardium 

 edule, Tellina solidula, and Turritella, with fragments of 

 other shells. Between No. 2 and the chalk No. 1, there 

 usually intervenes a breccia of broken chalk flints. 



No. 3. Unstratified blue clay or till, with small pebbles 



Fig. 47 



Southern extremity of Moens Klint (Puggaard). 



A Horizontal drift. 



B Chalk and overlying drift beginning to rise. 



c First flexure and fault. Height of cliff at this point, 180 feet. 



Fig. 48 



Section of Moens Klint (Puggaard), continued from fig. 47. 



s Fossil shells of recent species in the drift at this point.^ 

 G Greatest height near G, 280 feet. 



and fragments of Scandinavian rocks occasionally scattered 

 through it, twenty feet thick. 



No. 4. A second unstratified mass of yellow and more sandy 

 clay forty feet thick, with pebbles and angular polished and 

 striated blocks of granite and other Scandinavian rocks, 

 transported from a distance. 



No. 5. Stratified sands and gravel, with occasionally large 



