V.—On Fauits in Drift at Stockport, Cheshire

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During the years 1866 and 1867 considerable discussion took place through the medium of this Journal on the question ofthe existence of dislocations, or faults, in Glacial Drift. As I believe no communication has appeared since the latter year in these columns on that subject, it may not be altogether uninteresting to your readers if I briefly refer to a clear and unmistakeable example of faulted drift which recently came under my observation at a ballast pit close to the Stockport Railway Station. At the time of my first visit, about three months ago, my object being to search for traces of marine shells in the sand, the several details of the section were exhibited with remarkable distinctness, the action of the weather having brought out the several lines of bedding and fracture as sharply as though they had been produced in a body of compact Sandstone; indeed, so exact was the resemblance in that respect that at a short distance it would have been difficult to believe that such was not the fact. Unfortunately, since that time, a quantity of sand has been removed from the face of the pit, thereby partially obliterating the details; the principal features, nevertheless, were easily discernible a few weeks ago, when I last visited the spot.