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GEOLOGICAL EXCURSIONS IN CONNEXION WITH

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

PROFESSOR MORRIS has accompanied some of the students attending the geological class at University College upon two excursions, one to Grays in Essex, the other to Bath and its neighbourhood. The object of the former expedition 'was to examine the fine sections of upper chalk and flints, overlain by portions of the lower tertiary strata or Thanet sand, which are also seen on the opposite side of the Thames valley, thus proving it has been subsequently excavated; whilst in the adjacent brick-fields may be studied the brick-earth and gravel beds deposited by some ancient Thames which flowed along the valley when elephants, rhinosceroses, oxen, horses, and deer, and even carnivora-as the cave bear and hyæna-roamed along the banks or amid the forests of the district, their remains being found entombed in the old river mud associated with many species of freshwater mollusca still living in the river, with two or three other shells not now found in the Thames, one-the Cyrena fluminalis-formerly abundant here, now living in the Nile.

The excursion to Bath occupied a few days, and was devoted to the examination of the oolitic rocks so well developed in the vicinity, and the connexion of the picturesque valleys of the district as dependent on the geological structure, modified by rain and springs, rivers, and other erosive agencies.

The railway now making from Bath to Mangotsfield afforded some new sections at Weston, Saltford, and Willsbridge, showing the red marl, the rhætic series, and lower lias, with the characteristic fossils; whilst in the latter cutting all these beds were not only well exposed, but were faulted against a mass of tennant rock, or coal-measure sandstone, showing a considerable downthrow of the newer strata.

The party subsequently visited the Radstock coal-field, rich in fossil plants, from whence they traced the succession of the outcrops of the still lower strata to the Mendips, where, near to East End, a trappean dyke is seen piercing the old red sandstone, considered to be a part of the igneous action to which the elevation and anticlinal strata of the Mendips are due.

The celebrated quarries of Vallis, Whatley, and Holwell were also visited.

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