. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal . Section of Sand-pit, Junction lload, Leith. rounded, and loosely cemented in a sandy and somewhat fer- ruginous matrix. (2) Is a bed of fine white sand, about six feet thick. It is full of false bedding, the diagonal stratifica- tion being beautifully exhibited by the alternations of darker and lighter coloured layers. Its upper surface is irregular, and is overlaid by a well-marked seam (3) of sand and gravel, which averages about sixteen inches in thickness. Its lower part is gravelly and ferruginous. This stratum is covered by three or four inches of
. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal . Section of Sand-pit, Junction lload, Leith. rounded, and loosely cemented in a sandy and somewhat fer- ruginous matrix. (2) Is a bed of fine white sand, about six feet thick. It is full of false bedding, the diagonal stratifica- tion being beautifully exhibited by the alternations of darker and lighter coloured layers. Its upper surface is irregular, and is overlaid by a well-marked seam (3) of sand and gravel, which averages about sixteen inches in thickness. Its lower part is gravelly and ferruginous. This stratum is covered by three or four inches of a stiff greenish clay (4), which contains numerous perpendicular (sometimes dichotomous) ferruginous
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