The Glacial Sections round Sudbury (Suffolk)

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The sections round Sudbury are called in the Geological Survey Memoir of 1885 ‘perhaps about the finest in any inland spot in East Anglia.’ They are described in the Survey Memoir on North-West Essex (1878); and there are further notes in that on Ipswich, Hadleigh, etc. (1885). There is a paper by Dr. Marr in Geol. Mag. 1887 (p. 262); there have been excursions to the neighbourhood on the occasion of the Geological Society's Centenary in 1907, and by the Geologists' Association in 1898 and 1910, of which brief descriptions have been published. I know of nothing else. Since publication of the two Survey Memoirs some pits have been closed; some new ones opened; and many extended considerably. These changes have disclosed facts of considerable interest, which deserve to be put on record. I. The Principal Pits. I will name the position and contents of the principal pits, giving numbers to them for use in this paper and notes of references to them in the Survey Memoirs. Beginning with those on the high road leading eastwards from the town, Green's Pit (1) has been filled in, but the singular contorted sands are still visible. On the south side of the road two pits (2) called Victoria on the Ordnance Map and in the Geological Survey Memoirs, now joined at the top, show Chalk, Thanet Sands, Crag, gravels, and a patch of Boulder Clay. Farther out along the road, on Gallows Hill, two brickworks (3), called California on the Ordnance Map

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