Societies and Academies

Abstract

LONDON. Geological Society, December 18, 1918.—Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, president, in the chair.—C. T. Trechmann: A bed of inter-Glacial loess and some pre-Glacial freshwater clays on the Durham coast. A few years ago the author described a bed of Scandinavian drift that was found filling up a small pre-Glacial valley-like depression at Warren House Gill, on the Durham coast. This section, and others north and south of it, have been kept under observation at different times, and several new features have been noticed as the high tides and other agencies exposed parts of the coast. All the observed features seem to point to the fact that the Scandinavian ice-sheet advanced on the east coast of England in the same way as it invaded northern Europe round the southern shores of the Baltic, and gave rise to analogous climatic conditions leading to the formation of loess, a fragment of which is found protected from the erosive action of the later local glaciation in a small hollow on the Durham coast.