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occurrence, the mass of the Eocene Tertiaries being more than 

 7 miles from Stansfield, at the nearest, while Foxearth is over 

 5 in the same direction (south-east). 



Should the beds just above the Chalk in these cases prove to be 

 Eocene, it will show how doubtful it is what next underlies the 

 thick Drift in many places in these parts. 



Woolver stone. Mr. C. H. Berners. Since 1895. 



Made and communicated by Messrs. LeGeamd cfe Sutclife. 

 95 feet above Ordnance-datum. Water-level 93 feet down. 



Thickness. Depth. 



Feet. Feet. 



Soil 2 2 



rr . -. f Sand 4 G 



[Drift.] { gandy gravel 6 12 



\ Brown clay 6 18 



I Sandy blue clay, with 9 inches of* olaystone 



[London | at the base 13| 31| 



Clay, -{ Blue clay 7£ 39 



59 feet.] I Sandy blue clay, with 15 inches of claystone 



at the base 9| 48^ 



l v Sandy clay 22^ 71 



( Hard dark sand 4 75 



I Yellow sandy clay, with 21 inches of hard 



[Beading | claystone at the base 1\ 82^ 



Beds, \ ; Blowing ' sand llf 94 



341 feet] I Hard blue clay 6 100 



j Coloured [mottled] clay U 10U 



{ Grreen flints 1 105* 



[Upper J Soft chalk 10^ 116 



Chalk.] \ Chalk and flints 134 250 



Discussion. 



The Rev. E. Hill said that the wells also furnished information 

 as to underground water-level. The depth at Woodbridge could be 

 explained simply by a buried channel, such as often lay below exist- 

 ing valleys. The paper mentioned such at Ipswich and Hitcham, 

 and Brettenham Park might be connected with the latter. In the 

 remarkable section at Brettenham Park he thought the evidence 

 insufficient for describing as Glacial everything above the Chalk. 

 The beds there next below the Chalky Boulder-Clay probably agreed 

 with corresponding beds at Hitcham, and these were unlike any 

 thing he knew in the coast-sections. Tertiaries did exist in the 

 neighbourhood, as at Sudbury. Woolwich and Reading Beds might 

 well be called ' plastic clay ' by a well- sinker, as was the lower 

 clay here. He thought that judgment must be suspended. 



Mr. Houace B. Woodward said that he had seen samples from 

 the Woodbridge well, and had considered that a trough-fault best 

 explained the structure. With regard to the Brettenham well, he 

 agreed with the previous speaker that the ' plastic clay ' was very 

 likely to belong to the Beading Beds. No definite outcrop of Lower 

 Boukler-Clav was known in West Suffolk, and the Author had 



