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Geological Dotes, Burton-on-Crent. 
By Frank E. Lort, A.R.S.M., F.1.C. 
READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY, APRIL 18TH, 1901, 
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AVING during the past ten years or so made occasional obser- 
vations in the immediate neighbourhood of Burton, and 
subsequently noted that, in some of the cases, the particular phe- 
nomena observed, became obliterated or obscured by the hand of 
man, I have here placed some few of these on record. 
Since compiling these notes, I have seen some very interesting 
Geological notes by Mr. C. Fox Strangways in the Transactions of 
the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society for October, 1900, 
giving an excellent map and sections of the Derbyshire side of the 
Trent at Burton, and forestalling me in some of the observations here 
recorded. 
Tue Rep Mart Beps or THE KEUPER. 
On Waterloo Mount there is an excellent opportunity of ex- 
amining these beds in the brick yards. 
A noticeable feature is the horizontal character, the dip at this 
point being almost inappreciable, and at one time there was almost 
a complete circular section to be seen. 
About 20 feet from the top of the cliff isa hard rocky band of 
whitish sandstone, with a thin layer of about one to two inches only 
of Carboniferous shale, containing bright green and blue Carbonate 
of Copper (Malachite and Azurite). Now copper is common in 
