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Summary

Figure 17 Section shown by the northern pace of the great pit at the Crayford Brickyard, 1867.

[Reprinted from Whitaker, Geol, London, vol, i, by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.]

1. Loamy Soil and Wash.

2. Brick-earth, about 12 feet.

3. Brown Clay, with Race, about 3 feet,

4. Brick-earth, clayey, about 7 feet.

S. False-bedded, light-coloured Sand (the Shell Bed), about S feet. Corbicula fluminalis very abundant.

6. Pebbly gravels, about 1 foot.

7. Brown clay, wedging out against.

8. A long, lenticular bed of stiff, grey clay, with race, over 4 feet.

9 Brown Brick-earth, with Race, 15 to 20 feet.

10. Sand and gravel, false-bedded, with blocks of concretionary sandstone at top, 4 feet shown.

The numbers of the beds are the same as those in Figure 16.

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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2,110 × 1,038 (385 KB)Scotfot (talk | contribs)Figure 17 Section shown by the northern pace of the great pit at the Crayford Brickyard, 1867. [Reprinted from Whitaker, Geol, London, vol, i, by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.] r. Loamy Soil and Wash. 2. Brick-earth, about 12 feet. 3. Brown Clay, with Race, about 3 feet, 4. Brick-earth, clayey, about 7 feet. S. False-bedded, light-coloured Sand (the Shell Bed), about S feet. ''Corbicula fluminalis'' very abundant. 6. Pebbly gravels, about 1 foot. 7....