56 FIELD GEOLOGY. 



(c.) Date 187 . 



New Well J mile S.E. of church. 



(Information obtained from the well-sinker.) 



C 107 feet, dark blue Gault, with some 

 Gault. -J seams of nodules. 



1 foot hard bed 

 Lower Green-sand 2 feet running sand 



110 feet=Dug 50 feet, bored 60 feet. 



Water stands 30 feet from surface. 



(d.) No pit sections occurred in the second slip, but 

 in the third was a large chalk-pit, just on the highest 

 point of the escarpment. Here we see that a great deal 

 of the rock is being daily removed, most of it converted 

 into lime at the kiln within the pit, some portions carted 

 away for road-making, others for building purposes. 

 The vertical face of this chalk section presents a pleas- 

 ing picture, and is in itself quite a study ; it would 

 afford ample materials for a geological lecture. The 

 rock itself, of snowy whiteness, made up apparently, 

 but only to the naked eye, of minute grains of inorganic 

 dust; the even bands of flint nodules, which, being broken 

 across in the quarrying, look like black lines ruled across 

 the chalk ; the " slicken-sided " joints and the little 

 faults and fractures which here and there occur. Above 

 are two funnel-shaped masses of sandy gravel, running 

 down several feet into the chalk ; lower down a circular 

 patch quite surrounded by it. This latter proves to be 

 only an offshoot from one of the others, but which 

 having deviated from the perpendicular has been cut 

 directly across. These are " pipes " of gravel, filling. 



