PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1904 
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VI.—SECTION AT WOODNORTON, NEAR EVESHAM. 
ft. ins. 
LIMESTONE, bluish grey ; Ostrea liassica ai 3 
CLAY, yellowish, marly ots, ae 
LIMESTONE, bluish-grey ; shell fragments,  Ostrea 
liassica, Modiola minima. In two layers 4 
SHALES, brown, thinly laminated ee re 
Lower Lias 
(pre-planorbis ) 
1 LIMESTONE. Pseudomonotis-bed. Hard, bluish-black; 
Modiola minima 5 
2 SHALES, grey and greenish- grey, laminated “in 
places, usually non-laminated, marly vo See 
3 LIMESTONE. Zstheria-bed. Creamy- -yellow, ar- 
gillaceous ; L£stheria minula var. LGrodieana, 
ZL copodites lanceolatus ... -5 
4 SHALES, grey and greenish- grey, “and yellowish, 
thinly laminated in places, usually non-lamin- ps . 
Upper Rhetic 
ated, marly ; shell- fragments 
5a SHALES, dark-coloured 
1 LIMESTONE nodules, containing Schisodus Ewaldi, 
resting upon a laminated limestone full of shell- 
fragments ; Pecten valoniensis, Schizodus Ewaldz, 
Protocardium rheticum and Pleurophorus ae 8 
8 SHALES, black, laminated ae (visible) 6 
This section is the only one of the Upper Rheetic 
deposits in the county, and is therefore of considerable 
importance. It demonstrates that the Upper Rhetic 
beds have increased in thickness. At Wainlode they are 
12 feet I inch thick: here—deducting 3 feet from the 
lowest deposit of the upper stage, which would probably 
be found to belong to the Lower Rhetic, had it been pos- 
sible to search for fossils—they have a thickness of 17 
feet 7 inches. This difference in thickness is mainly due 
to the increase in bed 4. Beds 5b and 6 were not 
observed: at Dunhampstead they have a collective thick- 
ness of 2 feet I inch; at Wainlode 11 inches (possibly a 
little more); and at Coomb Hill they are absent. 
The Zsthervia-bed was seen as a creamy-yellow argill- 
aceous limestone, somewhat laminated, and containing 
specimens of Lstheria and plant-remains (Lycopodites). 
The inclement condition of the weather at the time of 
the writer’s visit prevented him from making as detailed an 
examination of these limestone-beds as he could have wished. 
Lower Rhetic 
