COOKE: GLACIAL DEPOSITS OF CLEETHORPES AND DISTRICT. 281 
The building operations around New Clee offer many oppor- 
tunities for studying the local peculiarities of structure, and the 
post-glacial modifications and changes that have taken place in 
these deposits. 
The widening of the Albion Road between New Clee and 
Cleethorpes that was done last autumn exposed an interesting 
section in clays of Hessle age that had been modified and re-assorted 
by the action of atmospheric agencies. The deposits consist of 
sand and marl, and of blue and yellow clays, and with them are 
mixed a considerable proportion of chalky débris, more or less 
decomposed, and occasional boulders of urate (anikdstone), flint, 
basalt, and gneiss. 
Between Humberstone and Great Coates are numerous ditch 
sections “oe show the structure and the relations of the boulder 
clays and the estuarine warps with which the district is enveloped. 
A pit between Great Coates and Healing has been excavated in 
-an inlier of the Purple clays. This pit is of exceeding interest as it 
shows in section a layer of Purple boulder clay of about four feet in 
thickness overlying a series of thin beds of gravel and sand with 
tions of thin seams of carbonaceous matter. 
predominant feature of the clay at this point is the great 
ed of chalk that it contains; but besides these are many 
fragments of flint more or less changed in colour, owing to the 
solution of some portion of their contained chalcedonic sou and 
of oolitic limestones, micaceous sandstones, mica schist, and re 
granite. The gravels with the intercalated seams of Saerarecle 
I trust that the ce notes, when read in conjunction wits 
others bearing on the glacial geology of North Lincolnshire, will not 
be without some value in assisting in generalisations as to the 
h 
former physical conditions that endured when the Clee and 
Cleethorpes moraines and boulder clays were The 
sou 
of ~ Selphy May I suggest to them that they should be 
: taken advantage of 
— __ Uvcoun, April, 1897. 
