Vol. 59 .] 



WELL-SECTIONS IN SUFFOLK. 



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Thickness. 



Feet. 



Strong, light- coloured clay (greyish sandy 



day) 2 



Sandy clay (greenish-grey and brownish- 

 grey clayey sand, bits of shells at 



243 feet : ? carried down) 8 



Strong dark clay (brown, bits of shells : 



?carried down) 2 



[London Sandy clay with bastard flints (brown, 



Clay, ■{ bits of shells at 253 feet : ? carried 



160 feet,] down) 5 



j London Clay, with yellowish rock at 

 310 feet inches to 311 feet 4 inches, 

 and grey rock, very hard (septarian), 

 at 327 to 328f feet and 340 to 340| feet 

 (specimen of brown clay from top 

 part, of septarian stone at 303 feet, of 



brownish flint at 310 feet) 143 



* Mottled clay (at 400 feet, curious dark 



bluish- and greenish-grey ; at 435 feet, 



grey with greenish specks ; at 438 & 



j 446 feet, reddish mottled ; at 447 feet, 



[Reading j buff earth, ?very finely divided sand, 



Beds.] with some brownish clay ; at 447=j feet, 



brown clay ; at 455 feet, very dark grey 



with some red bits ; at the bottom very 



dark-grey clay, with some green sand 



^ and green-coated flints) 75 



Chalk 75 



Depth. 



Feet. 



242 



250 



257 



400 



475 

 550 



From a specimen of the shelly sand, between 138 and 181 feet 

 deep, Mr. E. T. Newton determined the following fossils, a result 

 which, as he says, * is better than could be expected from such 

 ground-up material.' He adds that ' the bed must be very rich, 

 and looks like being Red Crag.' 



Trophon antiquus. 



Trochus (?). 

 Turritetta (?). 

 Cardium. 

 Mytilus edulis. 

 Pecten opercular is. 

 Tellina obliqua. 

 T. pmtenuis. 



Venus ovata. 



Fragments of other lamellibranchs 



Cupularia sp. 



Cellepora sp. 



Stdicornaria (!) . 

 Echinocyamus pus'dlus. 

 Spatangus sp. (fragment) 

 Balanus sp. 



Further information as to the great depth of the newer Tertiary 

 beds in this neighbourhood is given by three other well-sections, 

 respectively about 2 miles westward, about 4 miles southward, and 

 about 6 miles south- south-westward of Lowestoft. 

 . One of these, near Oulton Broad Station, has been kindly com- 

 municated by Mr. C. E. Hawkins, from a rough note taken by him ; 

 but he forgets from whom he had the information, so that we cannot 

 pin our faith to its absolute correctness. It is as follows, with the 

 probable classification added : — 



