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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.

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