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  ASSOCIATED 
  DEPOSITS 
  AT 
  NEWBURY. 
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  or 
  of 
  igneous 
  rock. 
  Referring 
  to 
  the 
  Southern 
  Drift 
  of 
  Snelsmore 
  

   Common, 
  the 
  speaker 
  said 
  that 
  a 
  few 
  quartz-pebbles 
  up 
  to 
  | 
  oz. 
  

   weight 
  occur, 
  but 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  failed 
  to 
  find 
  fragments 
  from 
  the 
  

   Lower 
  Greensand. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  H. 
  B. 
  Woodward 
  remarked 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  seen, 
  under 
  the 
  

   guidance 
  of 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  J. 
  Bennett, 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  plateau-gravels 
  near 
  

   Newbury, 
  and 
  he 
  asked 
  whether 
  they 
  might 
  be 
  of 
  Bagshot 
  age. 
  

   The 
  only 
  reason 
  for 
  grouping 
  them 
  as 
  Drift 
  seemed 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  fact 
  

   that 
  these 
  gravels 
  contained 
  a 
  few 
  foreign 
  stones 
  ; 
  but 
  now 
  that 
  

   Mr. 
  Clement 
  Reid 
  had 
  shown 
  that 
  the 
  Bagshot 
  Beds 
  of 
  Dorset 
  con- 
  

   tained 
  many 
  kinds 
  of 
  rock-fragments, 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  well 
  to 
  reconsider 
  

   the 
  age 
  assigned 
  to 
  the 
  high-level 
  Newbury 
  gravels. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  A. 
  E. 
  Salter 
  was 
  much 
  interested 
  in 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  

   various 
  gravel-deposits, 
  occurring 
  as 
  they 
  do 
  near 
  the 
  centre 
  of 
  the 
  

   valley 
  of 
  a 
  river 
  — 
  the 
  Kennet 
  — 
  the 
  water-parting 
  of 
  which 
  on 
  three 
  

   sides 
  was 
  over 
  500 
  O.D. 
  The 
  composition 
  of 
  the 
  gravels 
  on 
  

   Snelsmore 
  and 
  Greenham 
  Commons 
  was 
  singularly 
  like 
  that 
  at 
  

   Upper 
  Hale 
  near 
  Aldershot 
  (615 
  to 
  475 
  feet 
  above 
  O.D.), 
  where 
  also 
  

   large 
  sarsens 
  occur 
  near 
  the 
  base. 
  Deposits 
  referable 
  to 
  the 
  

   so-called 
  ' 
  Westleton 
  Shingle 
  ' 
  were 
  apparently 
  absent, 
  and 
  no 
  

   mention 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  Greensand 
  chert. 
  

   According 
  to 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  constituents 
  given 
  as 
  occurring 
  in 
  the 
  

   Donnington 
  and 
  Bath 
  Boad 
  gravels, 
  they 
  were 
  not 
  necessarily 
  

   of 
  Glacial 
  origin. 
  They 
  do 
  not 
  appear 
  to 
  contain 
  any 
  transported 
  

   material 
  from 
  the 
  North, 
  and 
  as 
  their 
  situation 
  is 
  peculiar 
  it 
  would 
  

   l)e 
  interesting 
  to 
  know 
  upon 
  what 
  grounds 
  they 
  are 
  so 
  designated 
  

   by 
  the 
  Author. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  R.. 
  S. 
  Herries 
  said, 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  B. 
  Woodward's 
  

   suggestion, 
  that 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  think 
  the 
  gravels 
  on 
  Snelsmore 
  Common 
  

   could 
  be 
  of 
  Bagshot 
  age, 
  and 
  referred 
  to 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Monckton 
  

   and 
  himself 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Geologists' 
  Association 
  for 
  

   1889, 
  where 
  his 
  reasons 
  would 
  be 
  found. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  Whitaker 
  also 
  spoke. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  T. 
  Rttpekt 
  Jones 
  replied 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  the 
  Author. 
  

  

  