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f. Drift<br />
5<br />
Drift was read directly from the 1:625 000 Geological Drift maps<br />
of Great Britain. The following attributes were recorded.<br />
g. Solid geology<br />
Alluvium<br />
Lowland peat<br />
Blown sand<br />
Brick earth<br />
River and marine gravel<br />
Head<br />
Glacial gravel<br />
Boulder clay<br />
Plateau gravel<br />
Clay and flints<br />
Hill peat<br />
Drift free<br />
Information was drawn from the 1:625 000 solid geological map of<br />
Great Britain. The geological strata mapped were variously combined<br />
to produce the following shortened list:<br />
Pre-Cambrian<br />
Igneous extrusive<br />
Igneous intrusive<br />
Metamorphic<br />
Slates(Cambrian)<br />
Limestones etc<br />
:X<br />
T,R,A,S,B<br />
G,F,H,D,E,<br />
G,B<br />
a<br />
Ordovician and Silurian bl-b7<br />
Carboniferous and Magnesian d2,e2.e4<br />
Oolites,chalk andcornbrash<br />
Sandstones<br />
Old Red (Devonian) cl-c3<br />
New Red (Permian) e3,e5<br />
Bunter,etc(Triassic) fl-f6<br />
Greensand h3-h4, h2<br />
Other beds (Eocene) i4-i7<br />
Coal measures d4-d6<br />
Clays etc<br />
Lias gl-g4<br />
Oxford, Kimmeridge glO&g14<br />
London i3<br />
Norwich 1<br />
Other (Oligocene&Pliocene) i8-i12,k,kl, hl<br />
2.2.2. Classification<br />
. g5-g9, h5<br />
The procedure was to divide the entire British Rail network into measured,<br />
and subsequently numbered, ten mile units. Attributes or characters were<br />
recorded for each rural unit, and the unit classified, with resnect to its<br />
score, by'Indicator Species Analysis (Hill, Bunce & Shaw 1975). The ISA<br />
was taken to five levels of division producing 32 classes. Classes having<br />
fewer than 15.members were subsequently amalgamated with their closest relation<br />
(provided this could be done within the fifth division) to produce<br />
groups of more comparable size for statistical and analytical purposes.<br />
Vu<br />
1<br />
1<br />
1<br />
I.