23 GEOLOGICAL NOTES—BURTON-ON-TRENT. 
these Keuper beds on the Continent, in fact, has given them their 
name, but in this country it is extremely rare. 
The red marls here are full of disseminated Gypsum, even when it is 
quite invisible to the eye, but in these pits there are also several well- 
marked bands of fibrous Gypsum to be seen and small crystals of 
Selenite may be occasionally found. 
The slabs of marly sandstone are frequently ripple-marked in a 
very distinct manner on one particular horizon. 
The picturesque old road out of Burton up the Bearwood Hill was 
formerly most interesting to the geologist, but the new wall has almost 
entirely destroyed its picturesqueness, and very largely its interest 
from a geological point of view. There is still an interesting clift of 
Red marl showing the slight dip to the North-west and the great 
regularity of the beds.and variety of colour. When the wall was 
being built, the section was most interesting, and the above illustra- 
tion, taken from a ie die by Mr. ei Goff, will give a good idea of 
this section. — 
