can anyone explain how tectonic activity ould have caused difering sediments across the woolwich and reading?

Question

beds such that plant roots are found at the bottom, and chalk and iron at the beginning of the woolwich and reading beds?

Answer 1

These sites are very wordy but very informative conserning the geology of Woolwich and Reading beds.

http://www.geology.19thcenturyscience.org/books/1878-Ramsay-Geology/text-ocr/text/Chap15.html

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/840346/episodic_fire_runoff_and_deposition_at_the_palaeoceneeocene_boundary/index.html?source=r_science