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THE 



INFERIOR OOLITE AND CONTIGUOUS DEPOSITS 



OF THE SOUTH COTTESWOLDS* 



BY 

 L. RICHARDSON, F.R.S.E., P.L.S., F.G.S. 



[Plates XV.-XXI.] 



CONTENTS 



Pages 



I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 



II. Subdivisions recognizable in the Inferior Oolite of the South 

 Cotteswolds. and the probable causes which governed 

 their distribution . . . . . . . . • . . . 81 



III. Local Details 87 



(i) The Bath-Dodington Area 



(2) The Dodington-Dursley Area 



(3) The Dursley-Selsley-Hill Area 



(4) The Rodborough-Hill and Nailsworth Areas 



I . — Introduction . 



In previous papers I have described in detail the Inferior- 

 Oolite and contiguous deposits of the Bath-Doulting' and 

 Rissington-Burford districts.^ Between these two, however, is 

 an upland tract of considerable extent where Inferior-Oolite 

 rocks occur. It embraces the South, the greater part of the 

 Mid, and the North Cotteswolds. 



The Inferior Oolite of the northern portion of the South 

 Cotteswolds, and of certain sections still further south, has 



* This paper was communicated on November 13th, 1906, but some additions have since been 

 made. 

 ■ I Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixiii. (1907), pp. 383-436. 



2 Ibid., pp. 437-443. The Burford-Rissington district is in the Mid Cotteswolds, but it has 

 been already described. 



