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In the long cutting at Gorleston fine sections were to be seen of 

 false-bedded gravelly sand with worn fragments of Gyprina, Cardium, 

 and other derived shells, and on top of this drift there was a patch 

 of Boulder-clay to the south-west of St. Andrew's Church. 



Fig. 3. — Section south of Hopton. 

 3. Boulder-clay. 2. Middle Glacial Sand with broken ochreous band. 1. Middle 



Glacial Sand. 



Beyond Gorleston the railway traverses the marshland below 

 Breydon Water, and terminates on the Blown Sand and Shingle to 

 the north of Yarmouth. 



2. Cutting at Halesworth. 



The widening of the Great Eastern Railway just north of 

 Halesworth Station opened up during June of last year (1901), 

 a fine section of the Chalky Boulder-clay with an included mass 

 of chalky and flinty gi-avel and seams of clay. At the northern 

 end of the cutting, which was made on the eastern side of the 

 railway, the Boulder-clay contained nests of brown and fine white 

 sand, also a mass of shattered chalk ; and it presented its usual 

 characters of stiff blue clay with many glaciated pieces of chalk 



N. S. 



Fig. 4. — Section at Haleswouth Station. 

 Chalky Boulder-clay with included gravelly bed. 



and septaria, unrolled flints, fragments of Red Chalk, Kimeridge 

 Shale, and numerous Jurassic Ammonites and Belemnites.^ Of most 

 interest was the gravelly mass (Fig. 4), which was made up as 

 follows : — 



feet. 



4 or 5 



Brown loamy and chalky gravel 



Slightly indurated clayey and marly band with flints, 



and fragments of shale 

 White and buff sand with chalk grains, and seams of 



chalky and flinty gravel 



Brown stony clay 



Very fine sand 



Chalky and flinty gravel 



Brown marly clay 



The gravelly beds contained numerous pebbles of chalk, many 

 black flint pebbles, and pebbles of quartz and quartzite, as well as 



1 A collection of the fossils has been made by Mr. Charles Ganz, of Aldborough. 



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5 or 6 



2 



1 



7 or 8 

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