Publication Date:
2015-05-08
Description:
This paper deals with the investigation of soil samples taken near Terhorne on the North-East shore of the “Sneeker Meer”, an expanse of water in the province of Friesland. (see fig. I) According to the geological map, the peat around this large body of water is covered by an 1—4 dm thick layer of young marine clay, but at the place where our samples were taken, the peat reaches the surface. A series of samples were collected from the whole depth of this peat-deposit (see diagram I). The surface lies here 0.35 m below the level of the sea. (As the sealevel is taken the N.A.P., the average height of the water level at Amsterdam.) At a depth of 2.15 or 2.20 m the borer reached the underlying sand. It proved impossible to penetrate with the borer used by us more than 5 to 10 cm into the sand. This sand (diagram 1a, which shows the lowest part of diagram I on an enlarged scale) proved to be of a red-brown colour.
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
Article / Letter to the editor
Format:
application/pdf
