MR. CLEMENT REID ON EAST NORFOLK GEOLOGY. 
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geology. Happening, however, to be at Mundesley on two occasions 
while the larger well was being sunk, I was able to obtain, from 
the waste, some specimens which add greatly to the interest of the 
section, though I havo never been able to obtain any satisfactory 
and continuous record of the strata passed through in the shaft. 
Samples of the chalk and flints met with in sinking were sent to 
me by the foreman, who states that the sunk well reached chalk at 
a level considerably higher than that in the boring, though the 
two are close together. The highest sample of chalk is marked 89', 
and a flint-bed occurred at 90'. It looks as though the boring may 
havo hit upon a chanmd scoured in the chalk in Pliocene times ; 
I cannot otherwise explain this irregularity. 
The following table shows the strata met with in the trial-boring, 
with the addition (in square brackets) of notes of larger samples 
obtained by me, on the spot, during the sinking of the well : — 
MUNDESLEY WELL. 
Soil. Loam and small stones 
Contorted (Yellow loam and small stones ... 
Drift. ^-Greyish chalky loam ... 
Second Till. Lead-coloured clay and (lints ... 
Arctic 
Freshwater 
Bed. 
Flints, &o. 
Pebbly greenish sand ... 
[Laminated loam, full of mosses and ) 
leaves of Arctio plants] ... ) 
Cromer 
Forest-bed. 
( Large flint 
) Loamy pebbly sand, [lignite and coarse 
I gravel of flint and clay ironstone. 
V Fragments of bone] ... 
ClII LLESFORD 
Clay and 
Wfybourn 
Crag. 
/ Laminated micaceous silt, [with Scrobicu- ) 
l aria and. Hydrobia ulvee] ... ) 
Gravel of flint, quartz, quartzite, iron- ) 
J stone, pyrites, &c. ... ... I 
Gravel [fragments of Tellina balthica , ^ 
I apparently from this part of the well, ( 
were found in the spoil-heap, but no (k 
^ fossils were seen in the boring] 
Thickness. Depth, 
feet. feet. 
3 3 
26 29 
11 40 
10 50 
1 51 
4 55 
? about 59 
61 
10 71 
19 90 
5 95 
2 97 
