The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . a. Warp. b. Trail of red sandy gravel. c. Coral rag. Fig. 4.—Section of Trail at Woking, ;i^-£2^=^^ _ b. Trail, with axes of peb- ^J-=ir^ -• bles mostly vertical. S~ -^~^ c. Sandy clay horizontally :i^~—~ stratified. The locality ^ ~ is nearly level. the case if they had been water-drifted. I have noticed this fact, espe-cially, in some Crag-pits in Suffolk. For instance, in the large Coral-line Crag-pit near Aldborough, Mr. S. Y. Wood, jun., has mentionedpatches of what he supposes to be Red Crag, and also phosphaticnod


The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . a. Warp. b. Trail of red sandy gravel. c. Coral rag. Fig. 4.—Section of Trail at Woking, ;i^-£2^=^^ _ b. Trail, with axes of peb- ^J-=ir^ -• bles mostly vertical. S~ -^~^ c. Sandy clay horizontally :i^~—~ stratified. The locality ^ ~ is nearly level. the case if they had been water-drifted. I have noticed this fact, espe-cially, in some Crag-pits in Suffolk. For instance, in the large Coral-line Crag-pit near Aldborough, Mr. S. Y. Wood, jun., has mentionedpatches of what he supposes to be Red Crag, and also phosphaticnodules, overlying the Coralline. Both of these occur in the so-called Eed Crag probably consists of a portion of the Mya-truncata bed, which would occur in ordinary sequence a furlong or 1866.] FISHEK WAEP. 557 so up the hill. The drifted fragment is much distorted, but never-theless not scattered. There are similar patches of this bed in thetrail in an old Crag-pit on the Saxmundham road, about a mile and ahalf from Aldborough. A similar case was seen by Mr. Boyd Dawkins and myself atWalton-on-the-Naze, where an angular lump of London Cl


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