On Photograph of Cliff Section at Hidderthorpe(The Photograph.)

Abstract

List of some works in which the section has been described, or referred to:— 1. Phillips, J. ‘Geology of Yorkshire.’ 3rd ed. Part I., p. 82. 2. Dakyns, J. R. ‘Glacial Beds at Bridlington,’ in Proc. Yorkshire Geol. and Polyt. Soc. Vol. VII. Pt. II. (1879), pp. 125, 126. 3. Lamplugh, G. W. ‘Glacial Sections, Pt. II.,’ in Proc. Yorks. Geol. and P. Soc. Vol. VIII. Pt. I. (1882), pp. 27 to 38, with drawings. 4. Lamplugh, G. W. ‘Glacial Sections. Pt. III.,’ in Proc. Yorks. Geol. and P. Soc. Vol. VIII. Pt. II. (1883), p. 241 and 251. 5. Dakyns, J. R. and Fox-Strangway, C. Survey, Memoir. ‘The Geology of Bridlington Bay’ (1885), p. 10. 6. Reid, Clement. Survey Memoir. ‘The Geology of Holderness’ (1885), p. 73. The photograph issued with this year’s proceedings is of a fine section in cross-bedded laminated sands and sandy clays in the cliff at Hilderthorpe, near Bridlington Quay. The place is about 300 yards south of Bridlington Harbour, just beyond the sea defences, where there is an excavation for sand at the top of the cliff, as shown in the upper right-hand corner of the photograph. The height of the cliff at this point is about 45 feet, but a short distance to the right there is a rather sudden fall of the ground to about 20 feet, whereupon the character of the section changes entirely (as may be seen on referring to the paper No. 3 of the above list). The sea ...