Identifier: quarterlyjourna601904geol (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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d I on theplan (fig. 1), the chambers and passages were often flooded : and thisstate of affairs causing great loss to the owner, he determined toclear out the lateral fissure^/ (fig. 1), and drain off the flood-watersinto it : thus, as it afterwards appeared, imitating Natures ownmethod of getting rid of them. It was while this project wasbeing put into execution that the discovery was made. The sections (figs. 4 & 5, pp. 340, 341) will give an idea of thesuccession and proportional thickness of the deposits that had to becut through. It was found that a sudden drop of a few feet occurredat the mouth of the fissure, and this brought the accumulation to a i i Reliquiae Diluvianae 1823. pp. 130-37. 340 MR. H. N. DAYIES ON THE DISCOVERY OF (Aug. 1904, depth of over 12 feet. The deposits of the main cavern passed intothis branch without break, but they took a downward inclination, Fig. 4.—Longitudinal section of the deposits in the lateral fissure g (in fig. 1, p. 335). Scale =£th
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(The bones shown are still in situ, and X marks the position in which the skull was found.) a = Recent accumulation of earth and stones : 6 inches. £»= Upper bed of stalagmite : here 5 inches thick. e = Cave-earth, with encrusted boulder (7/)and blocks of limestone and an intermediate band of calcareous deposit (e): 3=j feet.f— Lower bed of stalagmite: 6 inches.#=Bed of sand and pebbles of Carboniferous Limestone and Old Red Sandstone : 8 to 12 inches.h— Carboniferous-Limestone roof and floor. maintaining a certain parallelism with the floor and roof. A spaceonly just high enough to enable a man to crawl in, existed betweenthe upper surface of the drift and the roof at the entrance. About12 feet within the fissure a smaller rift in the right-hand wall was Vol. 60.) HUMAN REMAINS IX GOTJGhs CAVERN, CHEDDAR. 341 discovered (p, fig. 1, p. 335). It is very narrow above, but widensto 3 feet at the lower end. Fig. 5.— Transverse section through the lateral fissure g(in jig. 1, p. S3

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