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the opportunity of working the upper portion of our Lias. It 
is a consideration of some weight that many quarries—formerly 
worked for fairly useful stone, whether for road metal, or for 
building—are now abandoned, especially in our own neighbour- 
hood, having been superseded by stone brought from a distance; 
so that Lias Marlstone has been re-placed, successively, by 
Carboniferous Limestone, and this last material has been set 
aside for the Clee Hill basalt for road making. We may learn 
from these facts that where instructive sections of our Jurassic 
rocks can be obtained and studied by the geologist, they should 
be duly recorded and appreciated, and, however slight and un- 
pretending, be found, if useful, a place in the “ Proceedings.” 
1.—ALDERTON 
The position or orientation of the hill is peculiar from 
the fault which traverses it between the quarry in question 
and the Alderton Woods. Its course is N.W. to 8.E., running 
parallel to the heavy faulting of the’ Southern range of the 
Cotteswolds below Guiting; .and_ with | a small throw, and 
these faults are repeated, alwaxa “preserving the same parallel 
direction Southwards to the important heavy fault through 
Cranham to Brimpsfield and Renwick, leaving its mark upon 
the oolitic quarries at Cooper’s Hill, and powerfully shattering 
them. Much rolled and broken oolite is met with South of 
Bredon Hill, and the oolitic capping beds of Alderton Hill, like 
those of Chosen Hill, have been sheared off. At the village of 
Alderton is a pit with about a foot of oolite gravel resting upon 
8ft. of quartzose sand, and both extend to Little Washbourn and 
Beckford, resembling the skeins and seams to the N.W. of the 
hill of Churchdown. Broadly speaking, Alderton has about 
30ft. of the Upper Lias clay reposing upon the uppermost 
beds of Middle Lias, known as the Spinatus beds. The break 
between these divisions is evidenced by paleontological as well 
as lithological proofs. These will be again referred to. Through 
the lowermost clay beds, Commune Zone of the Upper Lias, 
conchoidal in texture, and contiguous to the Spinatus rock, 
runs a course of concretions termed the Fish bed or Insect bed 
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