214 MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN BEDS 



No fossils have as yet been met with in these deposits, 

 except the small lenticular markings, but the position and 

 character of the beds lead me to class them with the lower 

 part of the magnesian limestone, and its underlying bed of 

 conglomerate. 



NoRBURY Section.* 



n.f:. sv/. 



Middle coal field. 3 4 5 6 



Little evidence of the relation which exists between the 

 coal-measures and the new red sandstone strata is to be met 

 with in the country lying betwixt Rushton Spencer and Stock- 

 port, the drift deposits so enveloping the district as to prevent 

 the beds from being seen. In the brook-course at Norbury, 

 near the mill, about three miles south of Stockport, there was 

 a good section a few years ago, but it has been since covered 

 up. It consisted of the following beds, in the descending 

 order : — 



ft. in. 



Upper new red sandstone 



Red clays 6 



Soft sandstone of a conglomerate character, and a 



brownish red colour 6 3 



Red clays 12 



Coal-measures (middle part of the field) 



23 3 



The upper new red sandstone dipped to the south-west, at 

 angles varying from 10 to 20°. The red beds which I take 

 to be permian, dipped to the south-west, at an angle of 20°, 

 and the coal-measures had an inclination in the same direction, 



• For the loan of this and eight other of the wood cuts, used to illustrate 

 this memoir, I am indebted to the Council of the London Geological Society. 



