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IV.—On Roslyn or Roswell Hill Clay-pit, near Ely1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

O. Fisher
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Roslyn or Roswell Hill Clay-pit has long been a standing puzzle to Cambridge geologists. I have visited it several times, and have notes upon it made in 1853 and in 1856. I was there in November, 1866, having, by Professor Sedgwick's permission, the the assitance of Mr. H. Keeping.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 51 , September 1868 , pp. 407 - 411
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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Read before the Cambridge Philosophical Society. As this paper was somewhat severely criticised by Mr. Seeley in our last No. (p. 347), we gladly avail ourselves of the author's permission to reprint it here.—Edit.

References

page 408 note 1 Geol. Mag., Vol. II., p. 529.Google Scholar

page 408 note 2 At a subsequent visit, 26 04, 1867, I saw the Lower Green-sand in sequence to this clay, which would make it the true Gault. In another part of the pit the Gault reposed on Boulder-clay with Chalk pebbles.Google Scholar

page 410 note 1 See also Note 2, P. 52.Google Scholar

page 410 note 2 I have since learned, however, that a well at Ely commenced in the Kimmeridge soon reached the Oxford clay with a thin stony band containing Nerinæa intervening.