Field meeting in the Cambridge district

Some Glacial Deposits and their Relation to the Hippopotamus-bearing Beds at Barrington, cambridgeshire

“…The fabric of the lower till is probably disturbed and cannot be used. (Forbes, 1960). It is uncertain which of these is correct but all of them lie between N.E.…”

“…The presence of chalky Jurassic boulder clay in the Barrington district has been known for a long time but its age was uncertain until West and Donner (1956) dated it as Lowestoft Till by stone orientations and this has generally been accepted since (Sparks, 1957a ;Forbes, 1960). Sparks (1952) examined the dry valleys at the north end of the pit but at that time the relation of the valley fill and chalk solifluxion sediments to the boulder clay was not clear.…”

Arthritic, scavenged and largely abandoned: the curious tale of a giant pliosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay at Stretham, Cambridgeshire, U.K.

“…When opened in 1951 (Worssam and Taylor, 1969) or 1952 (Forbes, 1960), the borrow pit was $6.7 m deep. By 2 September 1955 it had been extended northeastwards, was about twice its original size and was ''.…”

“…. one complete hind paddle, one shoulder blade [the infamous scapula (see Sections 7.2.2 and The stratigraphic succession in the Great Ouse River Board's borrow pit, Fordham Road, Stretham, Cambridgeshire (TL 516743), 2 September 1955 (SMES FRBS DDF Box 599;Forbes, 1960). (Forbes's descriptions have been slightly abbreviated.)…”