204 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1906 
The details of the section referred to in the opening 
paragraph are as follows :— 
SECTION AT KING STREET, STROUD. 
Thickness in 
Feet inches 
SURFACE Soi Grey clay—probably redeposited Upper 
Lias I o 
Red gravelly bed, subangular pebbles of 
Oolite Sgt eo 8 
Upper Lias 
(- ae ‘Glay with tinevenitop a) ae tne I o 
2. Band of grey rock o 2 
3. Clay ; I 2 
| 4. Two rock-beds with clay parting o 8 
a ee ep at bottom, yellow at top 3 : Dactylioceras ‘Raquinianum, 
Saurian-Zone 4 7. Grey clay o 6 d'Orb., Htldeceras 2 mi 
8 Rackikand ‘5 a eae Ostracoda; Foramini- 
g. Grey clay o 8 ae 
1o. Rock band rion 2 
11. Clay, grey at the top, yellow at base, 
obscurely stratified and having a con- 
choidal fracture when dry 2 o 
12. Shales, lower 18 inches dark blue, then 
dark brown, getting darker towards the 
top. Regularly-bedded, splitting into 
thin laminze. Bedding wavy in upper 
portion; occasional lenticular marly 
Harpoceras sp., Jnoceramus 
dubius (very abundant); 
Fish-remains ; Lignite. 
Paver-Suates 
| 
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concretions in upper third 4 2 
13. Blue clay charged with iron-pyrites  ......_ I 4 Terebratula globulina, Rhyn. 
14. Pale yellow nodular clay, with black veins, pygmea, Thecidella sp. 
Orbiculoidea orbicularts, 
Koninckella Bouchardi, 
Cadomella Moorei, Ostra- 
coda; Foraminifera; small 
echinoids; Plicatula spinosa, 
Chirodota sp. 
resting upon an uneven surface of the 
a eee rock-bed (a) of the Middle Lias o 6 
—,-_————S—S I _—————e—EO—— eS eee YH 
Mippte LiAs 
a Pale nodular rock band fo} 
MARLSTONE {» Bed of red irony sand with belemnites o 
c Thick rock-bed of Middle-Lias Marlstone. 
Do 
ae, 
The Beds in this section which I have numbered I to 
11, and possibly also No. 12, would appear to be the 
equivalents of Mr Moore’s division B, and those num- 
bered 13 and 14 of his division A. 
Assuming that my identification is correct, we have at 
Stroud upwards of 15 feet of strata which are represented 
at Ilminster by only 2 feet 2 inches. At Churchdown the 
