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MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN BEDS 



N.N.E. 



Patricroft Section. 



S.S.W. 

 Railway 



Upper coal-field. 4 



The Patricroft section is about four miles west of Man- 

 chester, near to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. 

 This is one of the most interesting sections of the trias and 

 permian deposits that I have met with. In the deep coal pit 

 of Messrs. Lancaster, the upper new red sandstone and the 

 permian beds, the clays and limestones of which contained the 

 same fossil shells as I have before stated as having been found 

 at Colly hurst, were sunk through; and in working the coals 

 towards the east, a great fault, filled full of upper new red 

 sandstone, was met with (as shown in the diagram), exactly 

 like those of Manchester, Collyhurst, and Pendleton, pre- 

 viously described. 



The shaft marked a in the diagram was 440 yards in depth. 

 In sinking it the following strata were met with : — 



Ft. In. 



Till 15 



White sandstone 2 



Redclays 2 



Red sandstone 15 



-Red marls 6 



Redstone 1 6 



Red marls 4 



White stone 1 



Red marls 9 



Limestone 10 



Red marls 1 



Limestone 1 3 



Red marls 2 



Limestone 1 



Red marls 1 



Red marls, with several thin beds of limestone... 2 



Red marls 110 



Limestone 2 



Red marls 36 



Lower new red sandstone resting on the upper 



- part of the upper coal-field 21 



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