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Churchill Wood the “‘ Tea-green Marls” are to be seen with 
a band of compact, fissile, greyish-white, calcareous, mica- 
ceous (muscovite) sandstone above. On the south-west 
side of Thrift Wood, near the cow-shed, “ Tea-green Marls” 
are visible; whilst a little to the west is much débris 
of Rhetic sandstone. Here the basement-beds only of 
the Lower RKhetic cap the steep escarpment, the red 
marls extending for some distance up the bank. Mr W. 
J. Harrison, F.G.S., makes mention of an exposure of 
“White Lias” (freplanorbis ?) of some interest on the 
south side of Thrift Wood. “It [z.e. the ‘ White Lias’] 
is here a white earthy nodular limestone containing small 
quartz pebbles.” * I was unable to find this exposure. 
Mr G. E. Roberts, in his book on “The Rocks of ° 
Worcestershire,” has given some information concerning 
“the steep [and] in places even precipitous, ridge, over- 
looking the vale of Worcester in the neighbourhood 
of Crowle.” That author remarked that in this escarpment 
there is a stratum containing bivalve shells (“‘ Pudlastra 
arenicola”) and that he would expect to find traces of the 
Bone-bed and “ Insect-limestone” (Pseudomontzs-bed ?) 
or their equivalents. “At Wainlode Cliff and Aust 
Passage in Gloucestershire, which furnish complete series 
of the Upper Keuper beds, the bone-bed is close upon the 
band that contains the Pullastra; so that this shell, so 
plentiful in the Crowle escarpment, will indicate to us its 
whereabouts. Twenty-two feet above this is the place of 
the insect-bed: a thin band from three to five inches 
in depth, of hard blue limestone, in which delicate wings 
and wing cases (e/y¢va) of various clear-winged insects 
(Neuroptera) and beetles (Coleoptera) are to be met 
with. If the height of the cliff is not equal to its produc- 
tion, I should look for it westward [eastward ?] between 
Clymer’s Hill and Huddington.”* In the village of 
1 Proc. Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Soc. and Field Club, Vol. ie 
No. 5 (December, 1877), p. 123. 2 (1860), pp. 183, 184. 
