The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . m Engine shaft. Fig. The district has nevertheless yielded great riches, and has beenworked from time immemorial. 2 o2 538 proceedings of the geological society. [june 20, June 20, 1866. The following commnnications Avere read:— 1. On the Stetjcture of the Red Ceag. By S. Y. Wood, Prestwich has, I believe, for several years inclined to theopinion that the Eed and Pluviomarine Crags are coeval; but, sofar as I am aware, he has not expressed that opinion in print. In1863 my son had arrived at a similar conclusion; and in a
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . m Engine shaft. Fig. The district has nevertheless yielded great riches, and has beenworked from time immemorial. 2 o2 538 proceedings of the geological society. [june 20, June 20, 1866. The following commnnications Avere read:— 1. On the Stetjcture of the Red Ceag. By S. Y. Wood, Prestwich has, I believe, for several years inclined to theopinion that the Eed and Pluviomarine Crags are coeval; but, sofar as I am aware, he has not expressed that opinion in print. In1863 my son had arrived at a similar conclusion; and in a paperby him, published in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. for March 1864,he showed that the Chillesford beds overlie alike both the Eed andFluviomarine Crags, and that the Eed Crag itself was not aU ofone age, but divisible into distinct portions, the uppermost of whichhe regarded as newer than the Fluviomarine, and intermediate inage between it and the Chillesford beds. In December 1864 another paper by my son was read before thisSociety (but was afterwards withdrawn, and an e
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