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FAULTS IN THE DRIFT. 
FAULTS IN THE DRIFT. 
BY W. J. HARRISON. 
At Kibworth, about eight miles south-east of Leicester, I 
examined some extensive sand pits in 1875. The sand and 
gravel is false-bedded, very flinty, with the black streaks 
which seem everywhere to characterise these drift-sands. 
The gravel is worked to a depth of from 30 to 40 feet, below 
which the presence of water stops the working. In some of 
the pits the sand is distinctly faulted, the faults being of 
small throw, not exceeding a few feet. The existence of faults 
in the drift has been strongly denied, yet here the beds are 
undoubtedly displaced. I do not, however, think that the 
faulting extends to the lias beneath. Probably it is due to a 
“ settling” of the sands, owing to some change at their base. 
In the pit which lies 200 yards north-east of the railway 
station the lower part shows some remarkable contortions ; a 
bed of clay, which looks like reconstructed lias, being- 
pushed up into long tongues, which penetrate the gravel. A 
block of lias limestone here, full of Cyryphaa incurva , had one 
side as finely polished as could have been done by hand. 
We have here unmistakable evidence of the presence of ice, 
either as a berg or a glacier. The surface of these pits is 
about 376 feet above sea level. From one of these pits a 
workman gave me some fragments of encrinite stems— 
“ sharks’ backbones ” he called them. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MIDLAND UNION OF 
NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 
To be held at Shrewsbury, June 22nd and 23rd. 
Tlio Reception Rooms will be at the Music Hall in the Market 
Square, where also the Council Meeting, at 12 noon, and the General 
Meeting, at 3 p.m., will be held on Tuesday, June 22nd. 
After the Meeting there will be a visit round the Churches and 
other objects of Antiquarian interest of the town. 
The Conversazione will be held at the Music Hall at 7.30. Members 
of the Associated Societies willing to contribute specimens and objects 
of interest for the Conversazione will kindly communicate with W. 
Phillips, Esq., 37, High Street, Shrewsbury. 
On the 23rd of June there will be Three Excursions, of which the 
objects will be mainly Geological, Botanical, and Archceological 
respectively. 
