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represented by a thin band of stone, 6 inches thick, which 
contains Pseudomonotis decussata, and about 3 feet of 
“Tea-green Marls”—the “ Bone-bed ” and “ paper shales ” 
of Westbury being absent. In another of his addresses, 
Sir W. V. Guise’ records a visit of the Club to this 
locality, and it is stated that “the Rhetic beds [are] 
compressed into a few feet in which Monotis occurs, the 
black shales being absent. The Rhetic beds are forced 
up at an acute angle and repose on the New Red Marls.” 
Mr H. B. Woodward?’ recorded :— 
ft. ins. 
‘Three bands of blue argillaceous limestone and 
“* Lower shale with Ostrea liassica and Modiola minima 
Lias in bottom bed sa Sas cake ee 
(Zone of + Papery shales a Sa 
Amm. |Hard compact grey limestone, with blue shelly 
planorbis.”| layer and conglomeratic fragments. Monotis 
decussata. Fish remains. Ofozamites gracilis Oo 4 
Rheetic Beds. Dark shaly marls, etc. (faulted against the Keuper 
Marls.)” 
He further observed, “ The basement-bed, here grouped 
with the Lower Lias, has in many respects a Rhetic 
aspect, the matrix being like Cotham Marble in texture. 
It indicates, however, some change in conditions, like the 
bottom bed of Lias noticed at Stormy Down, near Bridgend, 
and the ‘“ Guinea-bed? of Warwickshire. It appears to 
be a remanié bed, and therefore to be grouped more appro- 
priately with the Rhetic Beds, suggesting a slight uncon- 
formable overlap of the Lias.” In March, 1902, I visited 
the section with Dr Callaway, but owing to the over- 
grown condition of the cutting, a satisfactory reading 
was impossible. The Red (Upper Keuper) Marls, with 
greenish patches, and about 3 feet of green marls were 
visible, succeeded by the remanié-bed and the strata of 
the Pszloceras planorbis zone; but the relationship of 
1 Presidential Address for 1885; Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. viii., p. 225; also 
p- 216, 2 Ibid. Vol. ix., p. 82. 
3 Mem. Geol. Surv. “ The Jurassic Rocks of Britain,” Vol. iii., “ The Lias ” (1893), 
pp. 141, 142. 
