Fig. 



o. — Section at the nortli-eastern corner of the new (Easij 

 working of Garside's pit, Shenley Sill ; 120 yards south 

 of Sandpit Cottages. September 8th, 1920. Surface, ahout 

 340 feet O.B. 



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V 

 E. •• y, 



Scalc^Verrical and Horizontal 







10 



15 feet 



ZY. 



ZY 

 T 



4 a. 



3. 



Thicl-fiess infect. 

 Soil passing' dowTi into gravelly loam, mainly of flints with, a few~^ 

 iron-grit fragm.ents, quartzites. and other drift-stones and j 

 boulders ; luoped and contorted with tmderlying clay, and with > 1 to 4 

 slickeu-planes in places : = Late-Glacial gravelly wash disturbed \ 

 by later ' trail ' movement. J 



Ee-arranged pale-blue Gault clay, with an occasional flint or drift-^ 

 stone in the upper part : much calcareous ' race ' in places : j 

 crimibly texture and massive structure with sharply-cut )■ about 2 

 bright slicken-planes, probably due to 'creep': passing down j 

 into — J 



Disturbed Gault : brownish ferruginous clay, somewhat ^ 

 weathered, with a few small brown-coated phosphatic nodules > li to 2^ 

 (black inside), and much white "'race.' J 



Dark greyish-blue platy Gault : with streaks containing polished^_ 

 grit-grains in the lower half: and mottled streaks of dirty j 

 greensaud in the lowest inch or two : in one place a lenticle of * 

 gritty greensaud, half an inch thick, at the base. Xo fossil? , 

 seen, but all the clays are more or less weathered and penetrated { 

 by tree-roots. J 



Loamy and ochreous iron-grit breccia, with some soft decomposed^ 

 patches, partly calcareous, partly phosphatic; and some tabular [ 

 slabs of iron-pan, measuring up to 2 feet in length and about an T 

 inch thick. J 



Orange-coloured and bufl-coloured sand, rising to near the top 

 farther south, and there passing into and capped by iron-grit. 



tol 



i to2 



Section (weathered) at the', east side of a small old parti y- 

 overgrown pit, 100 yards east of Chance's pit (see plan, 

 fig. 2, p. 5), September 6th, 1920. Surface, about 350 feet O.D. 



Thiclness in feet. 

 lto2 



Z. 



4. 



3. 



Clay soil, with a few flints and drift-pebbles 



Gault, poorly exposed, weathered and crumbly, with roots of^ 

 recent vegetation down to 6 feet : darkish grey -blue and platy | 

 in the lower part, with a paler band about 1 foot thick : bits of 

 shell, but nothing identifiable fotmd : a few small brown-coated 

 phosphatic nodules : not much " race ' : red layer at the base, on 

 pan of iron-grit. j 



Iron-grit and ochreous breccia, slightly calcareous in places : thin 

 tabular iron-grit 1 to 2 inches thick at the top, nearly 

 uous, but broken in places, with worn and polished fragments 

 to 4 inches in diameter below, also small polished pebbl 



Ferruginous brown and yellow sand with ironstone, passing at the 

 top iuto dark, liver-coloured, iron-grit rook. 6 to 9 inches thick : 



j-oorly expose! to 



y about 10 



J 

 laces : thin "J 

 irly contin- f x 

 igments up f ^ 

 3bles, etc. j 



