The water supply of Kent : with records of sinkings and borings / by William Whitaker ... with contributions by H. Franklin Parsons ... Hugh Robert Mill ... and J.C. Thresh ... Pub. by order of the lords commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.
- Whitaker, William, 1836-1925.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The water supply of Kent : with records of sinkings and borings / by William Whitaker ... with contributions by H. Franklin Parsons ... Hugh Robert Mill ... and J.C. Thresh ... Pub. by order of the lords commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Thickness. Depth. Jointed chalk, the “joints” [divi- Ft. in« Ft, in. sions of the beds ?] chiefly hori- zontal ? 10 0 216 9 Soft chalk (damp place 5 feet from [Chalk, chiefly hard, without < flints], 170 feet base) 30 0 246 9 Hard chalk Soft chalk Hard chalk (damp place 10 feet from 4 6 0 0 250 256 9 9 base) 77 0 333 9 Very hard chalk, “ bull’s head ” ... Very hard chalk, “bull’s head,” 23 0 356 9 darker 6 0 362 9 Soapy bed [marly layer ?] 0 6 363 3 [ Hard chalk 13 6 376 9 Grey Chalk. Hard grey chalk 148 0 524 9 Chalk Marl, r Light-coloured chalk-marl 42 0 566 9 70 feet Dark chalk-marl 28 0 594 9 Gault. Stiff blue clay 8 G 1 603 3 [Where the flints divide beds of soft and hard chalk they have been classed with the former. Only in one case was a bed of flints found in hard chalk. The Upper Greensand seems to be absent.] Branbridge. Dr. F. Paksons writes that the South Kent Water Co. made small works here. The well struck a bed of ironstone, and the water is ferruginous. It was used for the supply of Paddock Wood, but that place is now served with water taken from the Mid Kent Co. Brasted- The Phillipines. Two borings, 1904. Ordn. Map 287, new ser.; Geol. Map 6. Made and communicated by Messrs. Islbk & Co. 1. Failed to get a supply. Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. r * • *1 f Ppflt ••• ••• ••• • [Alluvium] | I ou|ny 3and 1 1 1 2 [River Gravel] Ballast... 23 55 25 [Folkestone Beds] Loamy sand 80 rTT ,, D j if Sandstone [Hythe Bods] { Kent rag 4 53 84 137 Atherfleld Clay 23 160](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28126737_0100.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
