| P number: | P805738 |
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| Caption: | Aust Cliff. Bristol Excursion, April 22nd 1919. |
| Description: | Above theTea Green Marls occurs the well known Bone bed at the base of the Rhaetic or Penarth beds. At the south end of the section it consists of a dark hard compact limestone while in the centre it is a thin layer of siliceous grit loaded with fish teeth, scales, bones and dorsal spines together with vertebrae and coprolites of saurians. Above the bone bed are the black shales about a foot thick with Avicula contorta, Cardium rhaeticum and Pecten valoniensis. Added note:Tea Green Marls, Keuper Red Marls, Band with gypsum, Red sandstone resting unconformably on Carb. [Carboniferous] limestone. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | From the Geologists' Association Carreck Archive. The Reader Geological Photographs Long Excursions 1919. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 141.68 KB; 998 x 414 pixels; 84 x 35 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 110 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Special collections/ Geologists' Association 'Carreck Archive'/ T W Reader geological photographs long excursions 1919 |
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