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where the Liassic limestones and shales are much disturbed 

 and broken, and dip at a veiy high angle. Pi-ofessor 

 Phillips* and Mr. Parker with Mr. Beesley, who cai'efuUy 

 measured this interesting and remarkable section, give the 

 dip as 25' 30" 40'", E. 20' S. true, and the general strike 

 N. 20' E. true. There are thirty-two beds of blue limestone 

 divided by shale averaging about 7^ inches thick, the 

 thickest being 1 foot 7|- inches. Total thickness 60 feet. 



Lithologically and zoologically it agrees for the most 

 part with the corresponding sections at Eatington and Har- 

 bury. Pecten Pradoanus prevails here as at the latter, and 

 the usual characteristic fossils, viz., Ammonites angulatus, 

 Bhynchonella variabilis, Lima gigantea and Hermanni, 

 Corbula, Gryphoea incurva, and Fucoids. 



Thence to Fenny Compton, higher zones are reached, so that 

 we have a neai-ly consecutive ascending section from the 

 New Eed Sandstone near Stratford to the strata which come 

 between the Marlstone and the Lima beds, the Middle and 

 Upper Lias being seen on the Burton and Avon Dasset hills. 

 The insect and other associated beds appear to be wanting 

 as at Harbury ; but with that exception the general section 

 is tolerably persistent as a whole, but gi'eatly and unusually 

 faulted at the places indicated above, the Lima and adjacent 

 underlying beds especially being more or less disturbed, with 

 one or two exceptions, all along the line of railway. As a 

 general rule in Warwickshire, when the White Lias is 

 absent, its place is occupied by the ' firestones ' and ' guinea- 

 bed,' and vice versa. At Wilmcote, for example, where 

 there is no 'White Lias' (the stratum which was mistaken 

 for it by Dr. Wright being much higher up and belonging 

 to one of the insect limestones, which weathers white), and 



* My lamented friend the late Professor Plullips kindly pennitted me to use his 

 notes on this sectioa 



