III.—Notes on British Geological Photographs

Extract

As promised last month, we now add a brief note on Plates III and IV of this series, given in this number.

Plate III is one of a beautiful set prepared by Mr. Godfrey Bingley for insertion in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, from which the plate is borrowed by the kind permission of the editor, the Rev. W. L. Carter. A full description by Mr. G. W. Lamplugh will shortly appear in the “Proceedings” of that Society, and from the manuscript of this I have been permitted to extract the following:—

The cliff to the left is the most easterly point of Flamborough Head; it is formed of the lowermost beds of the flintless Upper Chalk, resting on the uppermost beds of the flinty Middle Chalk, which are seen just above sea-level. In the Chalk a steep-sided valley has been eroded which is now filled with drift.