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IN October, 1904, Mr. H. E. Balch, of Wells, forwarded some pieces of “trap” from Ebbor to the late Mr. H. B. Woodward, who handed them to Dr. J. S. Flett for examination. At a slightly later date pieces were given to me by Dr. T. F. Sibly, who was then at work in the Mendips.
page 225 note 1 Mr. Balch, however, writes (06 14, 1914): “I am not at all convinced that the ice transport theory can hold… 1 am strongly inclined to suspect an intrusion, small and so far not detected.”Google Scholar
page 225 note 2 This is the explanation suggested in a paper by the author read before the British Association at York in 1906 (Trans. of Section C, p. 581). There is also a brief account of the rock in the author's Geological Excursion Handbook for the Bristol District, 1912, p. 119. Mr. Balch shows the area in which the picritic serpentine was found in his Wookey Hole, pl. vi.Google Scholar
page 225 note 3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xliii, 1887, pp. 649–51.Google Scholar
page 225 note 4 Godwin-Austen, R. A. C., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. vi, 1850, p. 88Google Scholar. J. Prestwich, ibid., vol. xlviii, 1892, pp. 295–8. Barrow, G., The Geology of the Isles of Scilly (Mem. Geol. Surv., Sheets 357 and 360), p. 24.Google Scholar
page 225 note 5 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlviii, 1892 p. 351.Google Scholar
page 226 note 1 See Barrow, , Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol lxiv, 1908, p. 384.CrossRefGoogle Scholar