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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12711392285).jpg 1854 <br> AUSTEN LAND-SURFACES BENEATH DRIFT <br> 117 <br> stratified gravel-beds of Brook which belong to the central valley <br> area over a terrestrial surface of the same age as that of St Helens <br> tends to refer all the gravels spread over the surface of the tertiary <br> series to one and the same group <br> Coast of France On the evidence that masses of peat were <br> brought up in trawls from parts of the sea-bed off the French coast <br> Pas de Calais Department of the Somme and that over the same <br> spots the remains of Elephas primigenius were very frequent as well <br> as perfect I ventured on the opinion that these parts of the Channel <br> had formed part of the dry-land-surface of the period of that fauna <br> Some observations by French geologists Rozet respecting a toiirbe <br> du Diluvium indicated that they had seen instances of terrestrial <br> surfaces beneath the gravel-drift ; none of them however have been <br> particularly indicated It was therefore with much interest that in <br> conjunction with several members of this Society I met with such a <br> case in the course of a geological excursion in the spring of last year <br> The place at which the section fig 2 was taken is about half-way <br> between Dieppe and the Lighthouse of St Marguerite The beds <br> are cut off by the cliff as represented in the sketch The portion <br> remaining has a slight basin-shaped arrangement as if the vegetable <br> and sedimentary matter had been collected in some local depression <br> The underlying beds belong to the lower Eocenes ; and above are thick <br> water-strewn beds of flint-gravel Mr D Sharpe collected in the <br> deposit in question the remains of insects <br> Fig 2 Cliff Section exposed near Dieppe <br> 1 Gravel <br> VOL XI PART I <br> 2 Peaty layers <br> 3 Tertiary beds 35614687 110213 51125 Page 117 Text v 11 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35614687 1855 Geological Society of London NameFound Diluvium NameFound Elephas primigenius NameConfirmed Elephas primigenius NameBankID 5716812 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 11 1855 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35614687 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35614687 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-23 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12711392285 2015-08-26 20 55 47 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1855 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script | ||||
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