On the Glacial and Postglacial Structure of Lincolnshire and South-east Yorkshire

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I. I ntroduction . T he geology of the Upper Tertiaries in Lincolnshire has not, so far as we are aware, received any general notice; while in the case of Yorkshire, the accounts given belong for the most part to a date when the views of geologists on the subject were very restricted. The work of Dr. Young and Mr. Bird upon the geology of the Yorkshire coast was published in 1822, while the more recent and better-known work, the ‘Geology of Yorkshire,’ by Prof. Phillips, has now been published thirty-eight years. Even the latter of these works long precedes the time when geologists began to recognize the importance of the Drift-series, or the former existence in these latitudes of the arctic and subarctic conditions to which they were due. These works, and a notice by Mr. Prestwich of the occurrence of Cyrena fluminalis at Kelsea Hill, in the 17th vol. of the Journal of the Society, a paper by Mr. Topley “On the physical Geology of East Yorkshire,” in the 3rd volume of the ‘Geological Magazine,’ p. 435, and a notice of the submerged forest at the Hull Docks, by Mr. F. M. Foster, in the ‘British Association Report’ for 1866, constitute the only published accounts of the Tertiary geology of this region, so far as we are aware, up to the year 1866. In that year, and while our investigations were in progress, Mr. H. F. Hall, F.G.S., visited Holderness; and, the results of these investigations up to that time being

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