272 PROCEEDINGS COTTESW OLD CLUB 1909 
with rocks which were a continuation of those now ter- 
minating in the Cotteswold escarpment, but that probably 
the Great Oolite, Oxford Clay, Corallian, Kimmeridgian, 
Portlandian and Chalk had also once extended much 
further westwards, burying our district beneath a very 
thick deposit. After the chalk had been laid down the 
district was upheaved, and while the Eocene beds were 
accumulating in seas away to the south-east, our dis- 
trict was undergoing denudation. 
