Vol, 68.] GLACIATION OF THE BLACX COMBE DISTEICT. 



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At Gutterby Lane End (near Gutterby Spa), where the cliff is 

 80 to 90 feet high, the following section was exposed : — 



Thichiess in feet. 



Red loamy clay, often stony, with seams of sand 20 



Sand and grarel, with fine sand at the base 30 



Thin bed of marly and loamy clay V\ 



Sandy bonlder-bed with shell-fragments ^ 6-8 | 



Sand 8 )-30 



Sandy boulder-bed wi th shell-fragment s ^ 3 j 



Sand lO; 



Stiff brown stony clay seen in the base of the cliff. 



The Upper Boulder 

 Clay is in places very 

 similar in appear- 

 ance to the Lower, 

 which is loamy 

 and pale red about 

 160 yards to the 

 south-east of this ex- 

 posure, and 150 yards 

 farther south rises in 

 the cliff and becomes 

 reddish brown. 



In the boulder-bed 

 there are thin seams 

 with pebbles and 

 fragments of coal 

 up to 6 inches in 

 length. Small peb- 

 bles of banded Criifel 

 Granite occur occa- 

 sionally, and St. Bees 

 and yellow marly 

 sandstones are quite 

 common. Quite 

 three-fourths of the 

 large boulders on the 

 beach are volcanic ; 

 others are chiefly 

 Eskdale Granite and 

 St. Bees Sandstone 

 (the latter up to 

 2 feet in size). 



Continuing south- 

 eastwards, stratified 

 sands and boulder- 

 beds occupy the 









^ Turritella communis Risso, Buccinum nndaimn Linn., Anomia ephippium. 

 Linn., Ostrea, and Mytilis ed^dis Linn. Determined by Mr. H. A. Allen. 



