| Ref No | LDGSL/800 |
| Title | Notes and sections, southeast England and South Wales |
| Date | [?1836-c.1889] |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 11 items |
| Format | Map/section |
| Description | Joseph PRESTWICH, mss notes and sections, southeast England and South Wales, [1847 and later]. Comprising:
1) Theoretical mss section of a raised beach - Rhos Sili [Rhossili], Gower, September 1859.
2) Coloured mss section of a raised beach at Tears Point Bay, [wmk 1859]
3) Coloured mss section of Katergrove Hill, Reading, [nd]
4) Coloured mss section at Sunning Hill near Reading on the line of the Great Western Railway, [nd]
5) Long, printed section with mss notes, from Oxford of the Isis to the River Thame, in two parts [nd]
6) Long, mss section of the Black Notley railway cutting, [c.1889]
7) Mss section with notes on the Line of the Eastern Counties Railway from Brentwood to Chelmsford, [c.1889]
8) Coloured mss section 'Bumington Pit, North end', [nd]
9) Coloured mss 'Section of Raised Beach and Drift at entrance to Lordswood near Chichester', [nd]
10) Coloured mss 'Section of the railway from Malden to Braintree - reported to be nearly finished ready to open in October...', 22 August 1847.
11) Mss written section 'Heman's put field', [?1836].
12) Mss written section 'Holywell pits, Malinglee', [?1836]. |
| Access Conditions | Access is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information. |
| Language | English |
| Publication Note | Nos.6-7 published in Prestwich, J, "On the Relation of the Westleton Beds, or Pebbly Sands of Suffolk, to those of Norfolk, and on their Extension Inland; with some Observations on the Period of the Final Elevation and Denudation of the Weald and of the Thames Valley, &c.", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol 46 (1890), pp120-154. Nos 11-12 published in Prestwich, J, "On the Geology of Coalbrook Dale", Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2, vol 5 (1840), p481-482. |
| ArchNote | Description by John Thackray; revised by Caroline Lam |
| CreatorName | PRESTWICH | Sir | Joseph | 1812-1896 | geologist |
| Subject | Raised beaches |
| Previous reference | LDGSL 800 |