Field notes, undated, 2 volumes
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5/1 Holm, 79 806 Longitudinal gravel train 2 feet 11 ft L. Long experiences. 5 1/2 ft eroded (10-15 crumy hill) 16 1/2 ft to print SE of turns of yellowish isolated from house (20-25 ft hill comes too) 2 ft L. sand. 7D ft typical white naturals exps Above Robertella alveata Simplex natures 5 1/2 ft eroded Above Robertella alveata, Strong calcate, Simply retusa 5 1/2 ft experience of Whitewater & Pikes. 7 ft internal. White natural, experiences, good W of pikes 11ft not exposed. 93 60ft trace of clinton exp. 94 22 ft Clinton. 98 5 ft up to S side level. 825 Crumy can pick way thin 7 inches. 835 farm house SE chalk @ Dressed. 95 ft below Clinton's Crossing Further downstream, is by a cliff with no gully. Clinton Railway 2 ft of top sand in Biglands. The most sand along river follows west edge of 1st bottom land. The middle road follows W margin of 2nd bottom, Only traces of this 1st bottom occur on Middle rivers. But 2nd and bottom lands form East margins in Wherne and are typical shapes of glaciated deposits. Directly S and also from house at S only middle road is of ft till over 9 ft of stratified sand & gravel, There is more than sand & gravel below. Probably at least 5 ft same & possibly more than that. Southward for this grand part there is a low kame ridge in askew travelling southward along the west edge of the second bottom. The hill crosses the gravel as far as a wine fence further north with the gravel shown at its surface where one ploughed, then the soil rises 20 ft above 1st bottom. The canal is cross several pits and farm opened in it. The other I demolish SE of a second wire fence, at and on gravel just with numerous fields 8-12 ft wide. The sand & grit is directly W by drained like hill isolated from channel down south. 5 of S end of house the grand con- tinues along 2nd bottom and is widely not covered by till in