The Victoria history of the county of Bedford . THE VICTORIA HISTORY OFIm 3AL J & B flrtbolionpvr THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND oil nty Boiinday y s h n in n thus GEOLOGY THE strata which form the groundwork of Bedfordshire, under-lying the surface-soil and other superficial accumulations, con-sist of rocks of Jurassic and Cretaceous age. With the ex-ception of the oldest bed that comes to the surface in thecounty, which is an estuarine deposit, they are entirely of marine freshwater or lacustrine beds which were deposited in the south ofEngland at the commencement of the Cretaceous
The Victoria history of the county of Bedford . THE VICTORIA HISTORY OFIm 3AL J & B flrtbolionpvr THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND oil nty Boiinday y s h n in n thus GEOLOGY THE strata which form the groundwork of Bedfordshire, under-lying the surface-soil and other superficial accumulations, con-sist of rocks of Jurassic and Cretaceous age. With the ex-ception of the oldest bed that comes to the surface in thecounty, which is an estuarine deposit, they are entirely of marine freshwater or lacustrine beds which were deposited in the south ofEngland at the commencement of the Cretaceous period are absent, andso also are the estuarine which were laid down in that area before theclose of the Jurassic period. With this break in the succession of thestrata there appears to be a slight unconformability, the Cretaceous rocksnot lying quite evenly upon the Jurassic. A few small outliers of bedsof Eocene age rest upon the Cretaceous rocks, indicating the formerextension of the Eocenes of the London Basin far to the north of themain mass. The strata dip more or les
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