BURTON-ON-TRENT 
NATURAL History & ARCHAOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
The RMhextic Weds. 
By Horace T. Brown, F.G.S., F.I.C. 
(Read before the Geological Section, October 31st, 1884.) 
that the outcrop of the Triassic rocks extends in a 
band of varying thickness across England, from the 
- mouth of the Exe in Devonshire to the mouth of the 
Tees. The direction is approximately north-east and south-west, 
and coincides with the general strike of the beds, the direction of 
the dip being to the south-east, and'this applies also to the over- 
lying formations, so that as we travel from the Midland Counties 
to the south-east we constantly pass over the outcrop of newer 
rocks, 
Where the uppermost member of the Trias, the New Red 
Marl, dips under the Lias, there occurs a series of intermediate 
fossiliferous beds, of no great thickness it is true, but of very 
great interest, inasmuch as they link the Triassic to the overlying 
Jurassic rocks, 
Until about twenty-five years ago, the beds of which I am 
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