On the Rocks of the Avon Section, Clifton

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An account of the lithological succession of the rocks of the Avon Gorge was given at the Bournemouth meeting of the British Association in 1919, and a summary of the rock-characters mainly from the lithological aspect was published in the Geological Magazine (1919, p. 523). Further work has now been done, and a full account of the rocks is published in the current issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. The following summary prepared for the above paper was considered redundant owing to the fact that the matter it contains is already incorporated in the text of the paper. In view, however, of the importance and accessibility of the Avon Section it is thought that a brief statement such as the following, in which the rock-characters are summarized firstly from a stratigraphical and secondly from a lithological aspect may be useful.