On some Well-Sections in Suffolk

Abstract

Some 470 well-sections in Suffolk were noticed in thirteen Geological Survey Memoirs up to the year 1893. Many of these were shallow, but many were of considerable depth. Few of the accounts had been published before. Two years later, seventeen fresh sections were described in a paper on some Suffolk well-sections, and since then four others have been noticed in various publications. As notes of thirty-one more have accumulated; as there is no opening for the printing of these, either in a Survey Memoir or in the publication of a local society (for there is no such publication); and as some of them have points of considerable geological interest, it is hoped that I may be forgiven for bringing matters of local detail (such as the following sections of twenty borings) before the Geological Society, which, as a rule, is hardly the proper place for them. Though ready to take a somewhat extended view of a remark made by a former President, that papers of local character would find a more appropriate birth near the place of their conception, yet I think it better that such papers (at all events my own) should be born rather than strangled in embryo. The object of this paper is to show how greatly our knowledge may be added to by wells or borings, and how sometimes these give results that could not have been expected. Woodbridge If there is a place in Eastern Suffolk where one might reasonably expect to be able