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Mr. William Whitaker on some 



Upper Green- 

 sand, 16 ft. 



Gault. 



? Neocomian, 

 10 ft. 



Great Oolite, 

 87^ ft. 



Hard micaceous calcareous sandstone 



Softer calcareous sandstone 



Eock like the top bed, but with more glau- 

 conite 



(Pale blue clay, with few fossils 

 Dark blue pyritous clay, with many fossils. 

 At the bottom a sandy bed, with I 

 glauconite, passing down uito : — 

 Nodule-bed, with phosphatic nodules and | 

 fi'agments of various rocks 



'Limestone, rather sandy, with particles of 

 glauconite : made up of water-worn 

 fragments of fossils in a subcrystalline 

 matrix ; hke Kentish Bag ; passes into 

 the next 



Limestone, consisting of a fine-grained cal- 

 careous paste, with oolitic grains and 

 fragments of shells, &c. 4 feet down, a 

 9 inch bed of clay, with many water- 

 worn fr'agments of shells, &c., grains of 

 glauconite, particles of iron-pyrites, of 

 coaly material, of anthracite, &c. About 

 li feet below this, a half-inch layer of 

 pyrites. At the base a 6 inch bed of 

 clay, with oolitic grains, fi-agments of 

 fossils, pieces of sandstone and of other 

 rocks, some particles of anthracite, and 

 phosphatic nodules 



Dark limestone, made up of ooHtic grains 

 and water- worn fr-agments of fossils ... 



Paler and more marly limestone, with scat- 

 tered oolitic gi'ains and many Forami- 

 nifera 



Dark oolitic limestone 



More shelly rock, with fewer oolitic grains 

 and many Foraminifera 



Eock, of calcareous paste, with scattei'ed 

 oolitic grains. Fragments of fossils 

 abundant 



Dark blue clay, with limestone bands, and in 

 places crowded with fossils 



Oolitic and shelly limestone 



Fullers' earth 



Fme grained oolitic limestone, with much 

 pyrites, more sandy downwards ; at the 

 base a fissile calcareous micaceous sand- 

 stone, like Stonesfield Slate 



Oolitic limestones, with many fragmentary 

 shells 



Limestone of more open textiu-e, made up of 

 water-worn fr-agments of shells, with a 

 few grains of quartz and particles of 

 anthracite 



FT. IN. 



6 

 6 



4 



201 6 



6 



9 6 

 5 



22 6 

 10 



11 



5 



3 6 



17 



6 



9 

 3 G 







