126 GEOLOGY OF THE BEISTOL COALFIELD. 



The following section shows the fracture of the Carboniferous 

 Limestone near "Weston-super-^Mare. 



Fig 3. 



ah d be 



a Igneous rock, h Carboniferous Lunestone. c Lias, d Alluvium. 



Thus were formed the well-known and lovely scenes in our 

 neighbourhood. We have only to call to mind Clifton, Cheddar, 

 Tintern, Chepstow, and Tortworth, to realize the beauty that has 

 arisen from one of the most awful phenomena of nature. 



The minerals found in the district are important and numerous. 

 The mineralogist may collect a great variety of good specimens 

 of iron, lead, zinc, barium, and strontium, with their secondary 

 forms, but these had better be described when speaking of the 

 beds and strata in which they occur. 



