Identifier: quarterlyjournal63190geol (find matches)
Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Geological Society of London
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ixing a new fence. Farther east, at a point 350 yards west ofthe Waggon & Horses Inn, large blocks of trap occur in someshallow gorse-grown depressions close to the Boman Road. Thesedepressions appear to represent old trial-workings, and from them 1 I have had the advantage of going over many of the exposures with twomembers of the British-Association Committee, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan and theRev. H. H. Winwood, also with Dr. A. Strahan, Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed, andMr. E. E. L. Dixon. To all these gentlemen I am much indebted for help andsuggestions. The excavations carried out under the auspices of the British Associationhave been much facilitated by the kind assistance of Mr. Ashman, of BeaconFarm, and Mr. Huntley, of Tadhill Farm, to whom I desire to expressmy thanks. My thanks are further tendered to the Marquis of Bath andSir R. Paget, the owners of the land on which the excavations took place, andto their respective agents, Mr. E. C. Treplin and Messrs. Wainwright & Hurd, q2
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Vol. 63.) SILURIAN INLIER IN THE EASTERN MENDIPS. 221 the specimen from Beacon Hill described by Dr. Teall! was probablyobtained. Much trap-debris occurs in the northern part of this field.East of the Waggon & Horses Inn, trap-debris has been found ata number of points, as indicated in the map (fig. 1, p. 220). Theseindications tend to show that the trap-band here is about 200 yardswide. The westernmost point at which trap is now seen definitelyin situ is at a clump of trees about 150 yards west of SunnyhillQuarry, but the exposure is poor. Sunnyhill Quarry, so interestingfrom its fine section of tuffs, is principally opened in fresh andesite,which closely resembles that of Moons Hill as well in its tex-ture and composition as in its generally shattered and slickensidedcharacter. Flow-structure is sometimes clearly seen. At one spotthe lower part of the trap has caught up and enclosed a mass ofred shaly material. The cutting-back of the northern side of theapproach to the quarry h

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