VOL. XV. (3) UPTON—UPPER LIAS AT STROUD 201 
ON A SECTION OF THE UPPER LIAS 
AT STROUD 
BY 
CHARLES UPTON 
(Read 14th March, 1905.) 
Although the Upper Lias is well developed in the 
neighbourhood of Stroud, it rarely happens that a good 
opportunity is afforded of studying it in detail. Recently, 
however, during the re-building of some houses at the 
junction of King Street and High Street an excavation 
was made in the lower part of the formation which dis- 
played an excellent section of the bottom beds and their 
junction with the marlstones of the Middle Lias. | 
availed myself of the opportunity to compare this section 
with some in other more favoured localities. 
The late Edwin Witchell in his work on the “ Geology 
of Stroud” has but little to say with reference to the 
Upper Lias of the neighbourhood. He gives a general 
section without details, in which he assigns to the whole 
formation a thickness of about 68 feet, and he reproduces 
one of Dr. F. Smithe’s sections of the Upper Lias of 
Churchdown Hill. Dr. Smithe’s sections—which will be 
found in the Proceedings of the Club'—comprise only the 
1 Proc, Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. xi., pp. 250-251. 
