566 Mr. J. Lycett on the Upper Lias of Gloucestershire. 
The following is the section, to which figures are here added, 
to mark the superior divisions :— 
)Gavvevaves a | OYo) ia oe eI RERC REMERON Coo cicero oc 1 
Very micaceous sand ......-.0.eeeesceceecevene 2 
Sand, with beds of unctuous, slaty, bluish clay ...... 3 
Blue clay swith) septariais cic csi se «laieiaj ls «jel» lew ssieels 4 
Thin beds of grey Lias-like marlstone.........-....+. 5 
Lenticular balls of indurated marl with Ammonites and 
parts Of Fishes»... 0... sece cscs ee er nec ce ceeeerceen 6 
Marly sandstone, a yellowish-brown sandstone, spangled with 
mica, blue at the heart, abounding with large Belemnites,| 
Peeters, &c.schaiks . Maldk bite bis HMA ls Sins <cles eine 7 
WE MERCIA er Ramen crop abe 0DODUE ONSOOOHG CO UeTIaS sarc ss. 8 
Clay, with veins of foxy earth containing ferruginous nodules 
concentrically formed round a nucleus of Lias............+..+. 9 
Vlas acts. Shee DEER, co demietls ee Weg wek sh Beh RRO SRR ees 10 
1. The lower portion of the Inferior Oolite; thick beds of 
coarse, calcareous, shelly gritstone, more or less tinged with 
oxide of iron. 
2. The sands of the Cynocephala-stage, with a shelly band at 
the top, some flaggy argillaceous sandstones in the middle, and 
a shelly band at the bottom. : 
3, 4, 5, 6. Upper Lias; no fossils visible in this section. 
7. Marlstone or Middle Lias. 
8, 9, 10. Lower Lias; but little exposed. 
In Sir R. I. Murchison’s little sketch of the ‘ Geology of Chel- 
tenham,’ the thickness of the Upper Lias is estimated at 60 or 
70 feet ; and the following fossils were collected by him from a 
road-side cutting near Sandywell Park :—Ammonites bifrons, 
A, undulatus, A. annulatus, Belemnites acutus, B. tubularis, B. 
penicillatus, Inoceramus dubius, Plicatula spinosa, Trochus bisectus, 
Arca, Gervillia, Lucina, ? Modiola, Nucula, Nautilus, Pholadomya. 
In the second and enlarged edition of the same work, the authors 
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