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A NEW RECORD OF GLACIAL DRIFT NEAR 
WAKEFIELD : 
AND ITS BEARING ON THE LATE GLACIAL CHANGES 
IN LOWER CALDERDALE. 
D. A. WRAY, B.Sc., F.G.S., 
H.M. Geological Survey. 
SoME months ago my attention was drawn to some excavations 
being made to the immediate west of the church in the centre 
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FROM 
KEIGHLEY 
DISTRICT. 
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FROM 
EAST LANCASMIAG®. 
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° 2 + 6 8 jo MILES, 
of the village of Horbury, near Wakefield. Under two feet 
of made ground the subsoil consisted of about four to six feet 
of clayey gravel, resting on much disturbed Coal-measure 
shales. As both slopes of the Calder valley appear to be very 
free from glacial drift, this deposit is worthy of note, and especi- 
ally the peculiar type of boulders it contains. These consisting 
in the main of Carboniferous sandstones and grits, which might 
have come from any direction ; also include several brown and 
black flints ; fossiliferous Magnesian limestone ; red quartzite 
1915 April 1. 
