| P number: | P208394 |
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| Old photograph number: | A08472 |
| Caption: | Anticline in Hythe Beds at Tongue Quarry, near Allington Church, Kent. |
| Description: | Looking south-west at Tongue Quarry, 2/3 m. west-north-west of Allington Church. The Hythe Beds, an alternation of massive sandy limestone or 'ragstone', and softer, 'hassock' layers, are overlain by sandy clays of the Sandgate Beds which may be seen, partially obscured by vegetation, at either end of the section. The beds are folded into a sharp anticline with a north-east - south-west trending axis; the whole is covered by a thin spread of gravel of the third terrace of the River Medway, most well developed to the left of the photograph. The Hythe Beds are part of the Cretaceous Lower Greensand, a series of rocks deposited in a former breached lake that became a shallow marine bay. Fossils are locally abundant in the 'rag and hassock', being preserved as solid specimens in the rag but as crushed flat in the hassock. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 1950 |
| Photographer: | Rhodes, J. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 574600 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 157800 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 274.77 KB; 1000 x 715 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 189 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Structural features/ Folding |
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