46 



ME. W. WHTTAKEE ON SOME 



[Feb. 1903, 



Soil 



[London- 

 Clay.] 



i 



( Brown clay 



Light-coloured loamy sand 



Brown clay 



London Clay, wi.th 3 inches of soft rock at 



the base , 



Blue clay, with 3 inches of hard rock at the 



base 



Close blue clay 



Dark loam 



Light-coloured loam 



Stiff brown clay 



[ Light -coloured loam 



( Mottled clay 



Light-coloured stiff loam 



Strong blue clay 



[Reading Strong brown clay and marl 



Beds, \ Mettled clay 



32 feet.] Mottled loam 



Green loam 



Mottled clay, bright red and green 



t x Green clay with flints 



Hard Chalk and flints 



Thickness. 



Depth 



Feet. 



Feet. 



1 





9 



03 



•"4 



33 



14 



17| 



n 



251 



m 



46-| 



'61 



50 



7 



57 



5 



02 



6 



68 



3* 



7U 



3 



744 



H 



76 



M 



80* 



8* 



89 



3^ 



924 



1 



9'3i 



U 



98 



2 



100 



4 



104 



This shows a greater depth to the Chalk than at the older well at 

 the brickyard, where 17 feet of Crag were found, only 8 of London 



Clay, and 45 of Reading Beds. 



Stansfield. 1895. 



Made and communicated by Mr. G. Ingold. 

 302 feet above Ordnance-datum. 



Shaft 1014V feet, the rest bored. Water rose to within 94-i- feet 

 of the surface. 



Thickness. Depth. 



Feet. Feet. 



Mould 2 2 



(White clay \\ 3-| 



| Loamy sand, with water 1 4£ 



m l J Blue and brown clay 8-§- 13 



[UBIFT.J 1 Dark-grey sand 4 17 



! Blue clay. Large boulder at 60 feet. 



i Sandy veins at 101§ feet 91 108 



pDitiFTor f Mottled clay 13 121 



Reading Beds.] [ Pale-green sand 3 124 



Yellow Chalk 12 136 



The description of the two beds next above the Chalk reads as if 

 a patch of Keading Beds had been found beneath the Drift. 



A similar suggestion of the presence of Reading Beds under the 

 Drift, beyond where they have been mapped, was given by a well 

 at Foxearth, in Essex," and that is the nearest record of any such 



1 ' Geology of Ipswich, etc' Mem. Geol. Surv. (1885) p. 122. 



2 « Essex Naturalist ' vol. vi (1892) p. 51. 



