Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood: Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other MatterWalter, J. Conway (James Conway)
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Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood: Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
Walter, J. Conway (James Conway)
Woodhall Spa (England)
{91b} A list of Scandinavian boulders, which have been found in
Lincolnshire is given by Mr. T. Sheppard, in the “Glacialists’ Magazine,”
vol. iii, 1895, p. 129. Notices of lakeland boulders are given in the
“Naturalist” of 1897, pp. 67, 103–104, 195–6, 283–4; and of 1898, pp.
17–20,85–87, 133–138, 221–224. In the Quarterly Journal of the
Geological Society for May, 1885, Mr. Jukes Brown gives the general range
of the boulder clay in Lincolnshire, while its range of flanking rocks in
our own more immediate neighbourhood is treated of in the Government
Geological Survey of “Lincoln and the Country around,” pp. 2, 122–129,
155, 156.
{91c} The average rate of a glacier has been computed at 64 inches for
the four summer months; in other cases one inch a day. The progress, of
course, varies with the slope or smoothness of its bed, and is more rapid
in the centre than at the sides, where it scrapes against flanking rocks.
{92} Sydney B. J. Skertchly, F.G.S., joint author of a valuable work,
entitled “The Fenland, Past and present.”
{93a} Geological Survey, p. 79.
{93b} At Bardney, Baumber, Horncastle, West Ashby, and Fulletby, &c.
Geological Survey, 79–81.
{93c} These beds of inflammable shale are also found on the coast of
Dorset, and are worked by levels driven into the cliff. This clay indeed
receives its name Kimeridge, from a Dorset village, on the coast, near
Corfe Castle and Poole.
{94a} Mr. Jeans, in “Murrey’s Handbook of Lincolnshire,” [p. 6] puts the
total thickness of the various cretaceous formations at “about 1,000ft.”
{94b} Geological Survey, pp. 207–209.
{95a} Ibedem.
{95b} Quarterly Journal, Geol. Soc., vol. xxxi., p. 125.
{95c} Geological Survey, pp. 202–206.
{95d} Geological Survey, pp. 203–206.
{95e} Ibidem.
{96a} Ibidem, pp. 198–222.
{96b} White’s Dictionary of Lincolnshire. Article on the Geology by W.
J. Harrison, F.G.S.
{97a} Quoted Ibidem.
{97b} Geolog. Survey Memoir of S. Yorks and N. Linc. p. 3.
{97c} Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., F.G.S., Naturalist, 1894, p. 251. In “A
Selection of Papers relative to the County of Lincoln,” read before the
Lincolnshire Topographical Society, published by W. and B. Brooke, 1843,
there is a paper by W. Bedford on the Geology of Lincoln. He divides the
rocks into 26 beds, commencing from the north of the Cathedral and
descending to the bed of the Witham. He gives a very interesting
coloured section, showing these different strata, where the springs arise
beneath the oolite; then the ferruginous gravels, the clunch clay, and
the lias underlaying all.
{97d} Geolog. Survey, “Around Lincoln,” pp. 33–35.
{98a} Article on Geology, White’s Lincolnshire, p. 70.
{98b} Ibidem.
{98c} Taken from a paper read by Surgeon-Major Cuffe, V.D., before the
British Medical Congress, held in London, August, 1895.
{99a} The original analysis of Mr. West gave some properties not noticed
by Professor Frankland as follows:—
In one gallon.
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