1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Reading Beds

READING BEDS, in geology, a series of marine and estuarine beds consisting of variegated plastic clays and bright-coloured sands, which form, with the Woolwich beds, a subdivision of the Lower Eocene (see Woolwich and Reading Beds).

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