10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREYWETHER»
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Quarterly journal of the Geological society of London
263, which shows the thickness of the various Lower Eocene beds from
Woolwich to Marlborough Forest. Past III. Age of the Qreywethers. — Mr.
Prestwich has inferred * that the blocks of Greywether-sandstone scattered over
the surface of the ...
Geological society of London, 1862
2
Report of the Committee on Sedimentation
Boulders of the English Greensand were called locally cowstones in the middle
of the nineteenth century.78 This usage, together with that of the terms
greywether and roche moutonnees, illustrates an interesting tendency in the
coinage of ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Sedimentation, 1932
The materials which compose these gravel-beds are derived from the
Cretaceous series, and are local, with the exception of the blocks of greywether
sandstone and breccia. These are much waterworn and of considerable bulk ;
they occur in ...
Geological Society of London, 1851
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The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
List of Rocks and Minerals forming Boulders and Gravel in the Till of Copford and
its neighbourhood*. London Clay Septaria. Copford. Nodules of Pyrites and
Crystals of Selenite. Greywether Sandstone (one angular block weighing 30 cwt.)
.
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The Geology of the Country Around Ringwood: (Explanation of ...
Mount Pleasant Farm. — At the edge of the escarpment above Loosehanger
Copse, at about 380 feet, a small pit shows coarse gravel of unworn flints and flint
-pebbles, with a few pebbles of greywether sandstone and Greensand.
Windyeats.
Clement Reid, Francis James Bennett, Ernest Edward Leslie Dixon, 1902
In the meantime it may be observed that Prestwich (in Jukes-Browne, 1905)
thought that the white sands formerly seen in the workings may be the parent
formation of the greywether (or Druid) sandstones. No Cretaceous or Tertiary
fossils ...
Institute of Geological Sciences (Great Britain), 1974
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Memoirs. England and Wales: Explanation of Sheet
2 Grey, rusty and buff sand with a good deal of clay in places, as shown by moist
patches 2 Pinkish buff sand, which becomes a sort of greywether sandstone in
places . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . 2 Very light grey sparkling quartzose sand with rusty ...
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1954
8
Annual Report - Institute of Geological Sciences
In the meantime it may be observed that Prestwich (in Jukes-Browne, 1905)
thought that the white sands formerly seen in the workings may be the parent
formation of the greywether (or Druid) sandstones. No Cretaceous or Tertiary
fossils ...
Institute of Geological Sciences (Great Britain), 1973
British pie-Cambrian sedimentary rocks are included, but Torridon Sandstone
might be added; and towards the other end of the geological scale there is a
noteworthy omission of any reference to Greywether sandstone, while mention
might ...
... Mr Annesley's, 100 at Air - - 1 Greywether, Mr W. Wyndham's, 50 at Blandford -
- 1 Hero, Sir R. Greslcy's, 50 at Lichfield - - - 1 4 His Grace (by Filho da Puta, or
Magistrate) Mr Moulds- worth's, 45 at Chester, 70 at Pontefract, and 50 at Don- ...
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