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4nd Dunraven Castle, and unravelled the geological problems of 
the district. In 1866, he took the Club to the Mendip Hills, to 
visit his recent discovery of the “Trap dyke,” near Stoke Lane ; 
passing on the way through Shepton Mallet, he called attention 
to the lithological similarity of the white conglomeratic rock, 
resting on the upturned edges of the Carboniferous limestone, to 
the beds they had seen the preceding year at Sutton, so unlike 
the normal Lower Lias beds, near Weston, yet from their con- 
tained fossils evidently of the same age. 
In the same year, at a joint meeting of the Cotteswold and 
Bath Field Clubs, Moore acted as their guide to the Warleigh 
valley, visiting the gravel beds at Freshford, said to be of the same 
age as those of Amiens and Abbeville, and in which had been 
found the Musk sheep and other extinct animal remains; the 
inferior Oolite section along the canal banks, the 30ft. there 
exposed representing those same beds in the Cotteswold Hills, 
developed to a thickness of some 200ft. ; the extremely thin beds 
of the Upper Lias with the Middle Lias at the base, opposite 
Dundas ; and on their return to Bath pointed out the Coralline 
nature of the top beds of the Great Oolite on Hampton Down. In 
1867, he conducted an excursion to the Camel Hill section, near 
Sparkford Station, and described the Liassic geology of that side 
(S.) of the Mendip Hills, where the Lias beds attain their 
normal thickness, some 700ft.; and taking them to his typical 
classical section so fully described in his paper on the Abnormal 
Deposits, read before the Geological Society, pointed out the 
physical and paleontological peculiarities of each bed, from the 
Keuper Marls at the base through the Rheetic clays to the white 
Lias, William Smith’s “Sun bed,” and onward in ascending 
order to the Blue Lias proper—a succession of beds, 365ft. thick. 
In the same year, he visited the Willsbridge section, and showed 
the members the Rheetic and Lower Lias beds, lying in a trough 
between the Keuper beds on one side, and the Pennant Sandstone 
on the other; a most instructive section due probably to the 
