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NOTES ON THE LIAS IN THE NEIGHBOTJEHOOD OF EADSTOCK. 



Sectmi at Huish, Radstoch. 



2-3ft. 



Yellowish, and brown clays. 



U 



1/6" 



6ft. 



1".5" 



Pale grey yellow-shot 

 limestone, with a 

 clay parting at base. 



Myaeites. 

 Astarte. 

 Cardinia concinna. 



Light yellow, rough, iron-shot limestones, 



with two clay partings. 

 Belemnites paxillosus, ^c. Ter. Waterhousii. 



Nautilus 

 Am. Jamcsoni. 



— ibex. 



— hybridus. 



— brevispina. 



— Oppeli. 



Gryphea MaceuUochi. — subovoides. 



Grenouillouxii. 



Pecten subulatus. 

 Inoc. ventricosus. 

 Astarte. 

 Phol. ambigua. 

 Pleurot. expansa. 



— numifimalis. 



— punctata, 



Rhy, tetraedra. 



— rimosa. 



Pale marly limestone, 



with dark phosphatic Amm. raricostatus (phosphatised) 

 concretions. 



Pale bluish white cr flesh-coloured 

 limestone. 



Am.planorbis. 



Brown clay parting. 



Two beds of pale limestone with 

 a brown sandy parting. 



Am. planorbis, 

 L. gigantea. 



Four beds of pale yellowish 

 argillaceous limestones, with 

 four brown clay partings. 



L. punctata. 

 Myaeites. 



4 



Three beds of pale yellowish- white 

 argillaceous limestones, witb two 

 clay partings. 



2ft. 



5ft. 



Thick cream-coloured White Lias (" Sun-bed"). 

 SpHts into several beds. 



Cream-coloured limestones. Many thin beds. 



In this section we have at the base about 5ft. of ordinary 

 white Lias on which is the " Sun-bed." Above this come the 

 " Corn-grits " of the quarrymen^; that these here represent the 

 Planorbis zone is quite plain, for the Ammonite is found in situ 

 even in the top bed and within an inch or two of the bed (e,) 

 which we take as the base of the Middle Lias. The Ammonite 



