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Encyclopedia Britannica



BOVEY BEDS

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 337 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BOVEY BEDS , in
geology
 , a deposit of sands, clays and lignite, 200300 ft. thick, which lies in a basin extending from Bovey Tracey to Newton Abbot in Devonshire, England. The deposit is evidently the result of the degradation of the neighbouring
Dartmoor
  granite; and it was no doubt laid down in a lake. O. Heer, who examined the numerous plant remains from these beds, concluded that they belonged to the same
geological
  horizon as the Molasse or Oligocene of Switzerland. Starkie Gardiner, however, who subsequently examined the
flora
 , showed that it bore a close resemblance to that of the
Bournemouth
  Beds or
Lower
  Bagshot; in this view he is sup-ported by C. Reid. Large excavations have been made for theextraction of the clays, which are very valuable for pottery and similar purposes. The lignite or " Bovey Coal " has at times been burned in the local kilns, and in the engines and workmen's cottages, but it is not economical.
See S. Gardiner, Q. J. G. S. London,
xxxv
 ., 1879; W. Pengelly and O. Heer, Phil. Trans., 1862; C. Reid, Q. J. G. S. lii., 1896, p. 490, and loc. cit. liv., 1898, p. 234. An interesting general account is given by A. W. Clayden, The History of Devonshire Scenery (London, 1906), pp. 159-168.


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