On some Recent Borings through the Lower Cretaceous Strata in East Lincolnshire

Abstract

The information on which this communication is based has been in my possession since 1889, but pressure of other work had prevented me from preparing it for publication until the present time. The results of the borings which are here described are important, because they give information concerning the geological structure of the platform which underlies the Glacial Drift on the eastern side of the southern part of the Lincolnshire Wolds. We learn from them that the outcrop of the Lower Cretaceous sands and clays extends much farther northward beneath the Drift on this side of the Wolds than there was any reason to suspect at the time when I mapped the area for the Geological Survey. §1. The Boring at Willoughby (1887). Willoughby is a village between the towns of Burgh and Alford, and the site of the boring ,is at the station on the East Lincolnshire Railway, which is the junction for the new branch-line to Sutton. The boring was made for the Railway Company in 1887, and a good supply of water was procured at a depth of 245 feet. For information regarding the beds passed through I am indebted, in the first place, to Mr. H. Cheetham, the engineer of the railway ; but the description of the strata furnished by him being only a well-sinker's account, and not sufficiently accurate to enable me to identify the strata, I wrote to my friend, Mr. Meaburn Staniland, F.G.S., asking if he could take an opportunity of looking the