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comes in a little fUrther on, where the strata are much dis- 

 turbed and are thrown up in the form of a small anticlinal, and 

 are displaced for a short distance on each side of the axis of 

 disturbance, but are horizontal on the opposite of the cutting. 

 Near the station at Eatington the Lima and other beds are 

 exposed in a cutting about sixty feet deep, consisting of the 

 usual series of bands of limestone divided by shales here 

 undisturbed, the lowest strata cropping out to the west with 

 a dip to the east. They contain th^ usual characteristic 

 fossils, though these are not very numerous. About a mile 

 and a half from the station, in an easterly direction, the 

 Rhcetic (Penarth) beds make their first appearance, and are 

 here composed of whitish shale, twenty feet thick, with 

 irregular included nodules of limestone with Estheria, over- 

 lain by the Wliite Lias much shattered and broken, which 

 has evidently been redeposited with some intermixture of 

 drift. At Walton Hill the black shales are seen underlying 

 the ' Estheria bed;' but only a small portion is exposed, and 

 the thickness is unknown; but possibly the 'bone bed' 

 might be found lower down in the river Dene below. The 

 i Estheria bed ' and clays again appear near Butler's Marston, 

 and about twenty feet of black shales are exposed below at 

 the west end of the cutting, overlain by drift. Further on, 

 beyond the bridge nearest to Kineton, these black shales 

 (Avicula-contorta zone) may be traced, having included 

 fragmentary pieces of yellow micaceous sandstone, the 

 Pullastra-arenicola bed. In places the strata are slightly 

 and diversely inclined, dipping on one side to the east and 

 on the other to the west. 



The White Lias is again exposed in the section beyond, 

 broken up on the top, underlain by the ' Estheria. bed.' It 



