On Mammalian Remains and Tree-trunks in Quaternary Sands at Reading

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The pit furnishing some interesting sections to be described in the following paper is situated on the Redlands estate, at Reading, a little east of the new Grammar School, and about a mile south-east of the market-place. The pit is about halfway up the south slope of the conjoined Thames and Kennet valleys, and is 36 feet above the river-level. It has been worked for gravel and sand for some years, and recently for clay; and the gravel-bed, from 10 to 15 feet in thickness, has been cleared out over an area 276 feet in length from north to south, and of about the same average length from east to west, where, however, the boundaries are irregular and, to the east, partly effaced. The beds exposed in the north face are far more perfect and instructive than elsewhere. This face, about 20–25 feet in average height, and, where completely exposed, 65 feet in length, is drawn to a scale of one-fifteenth in. to the foot in fig. 1. A. About 12 feet thick, represents the gravels and reoent strata overlying certain reconstructed beds of sand and clay. (1) 1 foot 6 inches thick, is the superficial alluvium containing elements derived from the waste of the gravel below. (2) 2 feet 6 inches thick, is transitional between the alluvium and the underlying gravel. It consists of rounded and subangular flints scattered thinly through a base of yellow clayey soil. (3) 8

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