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Figure 16 Section shown by the southern face of The Great Pit at the Erith Brickyard, 1867. [Reprinted from Whitaker, Geol. London, vol. i., by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.]
1 Soil and wash, lessening westward.
2. Brown brick-earth, with race, about 55 feet. Contains pebbles, and pieces of shells from the Woolwich Beds.
3. Darker brown clay, with a little race, about 5 feet, with a little grey Brick-earth (with shells) at the bottom, passing down into the Bed below.
5. Sand with shells (Corbula fluminalis, etc.) and pebbles, about 4 feet; loamy at top in parts, and gravelly at bottom. Thins out as the ground rises westward.
9. Brick-earth, with a little pebble-gravel.
The numbers correspond with those in Figure 17.
| From: A record of excursions made between 1860 and 1890. Edited by Thomas Vincent Holmes , F.G.S. and C. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S. London: Edward Stanford [For the Geologists’ Association], 1891. Source: Cornell University copy on the Internet Archive (Public domain work) |
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