III.—On the Denudations of Norfolk

O. Fisher

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III.—On the Denudations of Norfolk

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After referring to the scope of the subject which had been named by the Local Committee, the Author said—I will first ask your attention to the denudations, by land and sea, now taking place in the country.

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Information: Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 54 , December 1868 , pp. 544 - 558

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^{page 544 note 1} For information on this point see Gunn's Geology of Norfolk, in White's History of the County.

^{page 544 note 2} E.g. off the southern point of Norway.

^{page 544 note 3} This is a very common case, and usually determines the run of an escarpment.

^{page 545 note 1} See Trimmer's Geology of Norfolk, Jour. of R. Agricultural Society, vol. vii., p. 449, note.Google Scholar

^{page 545 note 2} Prestwich, , Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. XVI., p. 449.Google Scholar

^{page 545 note 3} Geology of Norfolk, p. 7.Google Scholar

^{page 546 note 1} Jour. Geol. Society, vol. xxiii, p. 175.Google Scholar

^{page 546 note 2} Wood on the Red Crag. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. xxii. p. 547.Google Scholar

^{page 547 note 1} Norwich Mercury, 11 9, 1867.Google Scholar

^{page 548 note 1} Messrs. Wood and Harmer subsequently read an elaborate paper on the Glacial and Postglacial structure of Norfolk and Suffolk. See an abstract Geol. Mag., vol. V. p. 452.Google Scholar

^{page 549 note 1} Sutherland's Journal, vol. i. p. 127.Google Scholar

^{page 549 note 2} Ibid. vol. ii. pp. 182, 198, and Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. ix. p. 308.Google Scholar

^{page 549 note 3} Geology of Norfolk, W., Phil. Mag. vol. viii, p. 35.Google Scholar

^{page 550 note 1} See Lyell's Priciples, Vol. I., 1867, p. 447.Google Scholar

^{page 550 note 2} I the volume of ice in the berg.

M the volume of stony matter.

W vol. of water displaced.

^{page 550 note 3} Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. vii. p. 22.Google Scholar

^{page 551 note 1} Mr. Seeley considers it to be probably Ostrea acutirostris (Nills), common in the lower Chalk of CamDridgeshire.

^{page 551 note 2} There is reason to think that this disintegration is sometimes very old, if not Pre-glacial and of the age of the Forest bed, owing to the remarkable cervine remains accompanying it, as at WhitUngham,

^{page 552 note 1} Geol. of Norfolk Jour. of Agr. Society, vol. vii., p. 463.Google Scholar

^{page 552 note 2} Remarks in explanation of Map of Upper Tertiaries, p. 12.Google Scholar

^{page 552 note 3} Journal of Geological Society, vol. vii., p. 21.Google Scholar

^{page 552 note 4} Sands were seen about Docking on high Chalk land, which appeared to be Glacial.

^{page 552 note 5} Remarks in Explanation of the Map of the Upper Tertiaries, pp. 12, 22.Google Scholar

^{page 553 note 1} Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiv. p. 146.Google Scholar

^{page 553 note 2} Geol. Journ. vol. xxiv. p. 149.Google Scholar

^{page 553 note 3} Sutherland, Arctic Regions, Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. ix. p. 302.Google Scholar

^{page 553 note 4} But there is a point at which the friction of the bottom so checks the motion of currents, that denudation ceases, as may be seen on a low shore when the tide runs out.

^{page 554 note 1} Geology of Norfolk, p. 26.Google Scholar

^{page 554 note 2} Geol. Mag., vol. IV., pp. 447, 483.Google Scholar

^{page 554 note 3} See MrMackintosh's, letter Geol. Mag., vol. IV. p. 571.Google Scholar

^{page 555 note 1} Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxii. p. 553.Google Scholar In a small pit adjoining Mr. Barnes' brick pit at Surlingham. I saw a fine exhibition of the trail with stones from the Boulder-clay, one of which was about twenty-five pounds weight.

^{page 555 note 2} Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxiii., p. 323.Google Scholar

^{page 555 note 3} Geol. Mag., vol. III., p. 483.Google Scholar

^{page 555 note 4} Ibid., vol. IV., p. 193.

^{page 555 note 5} Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxii., p. 553.Google Scholar

^{page 555 note 6} The shells from Downham, near Ely, are Scrobicularia Cardium, &c,, and there was a forest beneath, and the boacs of beavers are found associated with it.

^{page 556 note 1} “Antiquity of Man,” pp. 134–173.Google Scholar

^{page 556 note 2} For Mr.Rose's description of these deposits see Phil. Mag. vol. viii. p. 30,Google Scholar and Geol. Mag. Vol. II. p. 8.Google Scholar For MrTrimmer's, ditto, Journ. of Agricultural Society, vol. vii. p. 469,Google Scholar and Geol. Journ. vol. vii. p. 23.Google Scholar

^{page 556 note 3} Rose, , Phil. Mag., vol. viii. p. 34.Google Scholar

^{page 556 note 4} Ibid. p. 36.

^{page 556 note 5} Brit. Assoc. 1860. See Geologist, 1861, p. 69.Google Scholar

^{page 556 note 6} Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. xxii. p. 562.Google Scholar

^{page 557 note 1} Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xix., p. 323.Google Scholar

^{page 557 note 2} P. 545.Google Scholar

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