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commemorate the labours of Dale, who appears to be the first person that took
notice of the Suffolk [sic] crag fossils'.
Following Dale's lead, Harmer found that much of the Red Crag was bedded at
a more or less constant angle of 30, as, for example, in the cliff section at Walton-
on-the-Naze. Harmer further discovered that the beds never attain any great
thickness, generally no more than about 6 m (20 ft.), but constantly present a
highly inclined pattern of bedding. Such stratification indicated, as pointed out by
Wood, Jun., a deposit formed against a beach, or foreshore, or on the edges of a
shoal (Fig.
3.8
).
Fig. 3.8 P680271 (1907) Red Crag pit at Bentley, Suffolk with the British geologist Percy G.H.
Boswell (later Professor of Geology, Imperial College, London) and colleague sieving deposits.
(CP13/050 Reproduced by permission of the British Geological Survey NERC. All rights
reserved)
