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III.—The Drift-Beds of Llandrillo Bay, Denbighshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In a former number of Geological Magazine I attempted to describe the old sea-beach which extends along the coast of Llandrillo Bay, and continues round the Great Orme's Head mountain. It is my purpose now to draw attention to the series of Drift-beds, belonging to both the Post Pliocene and recent periods, which are here so well defined within a short space, and it is the more desirable to do so, because the encroachments of the sea are annually producing great changes in this district.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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page 349 note 1 Vol. III., 07, 1866.Google Scholar

page 350 note 1 Anhydrated peroxide according to. Mr. George Maw.

page 351 note 1 SirLyell, Charles speaks of drift-beds containing marine shells on Moel Tryfaen, 1360 feet above the sea level (Elements of Geology, p. 158).Google Scholar

page 351 note 2 Query. May not some of the bones found in these and similar caves have been washed in through the fissures with the Boulder-clay, although the caves themselves may hare been occupied as dens, or human habitations at a later date; and would not this account for the strange mixture of remains of animals belonging to different climates so often found in them?

page 352 note 1 “The Abbey was founded by Llewellyn ap Jorwerth, Prince of North Wales, in 1185, in honour of the Blessed Virgin and all saints.” (See Pennant's Tours in Wales, vol. iii., p. 127.)Google Scholar