vo.. xv„. (.) INFERIOR OOLITE-SOUTH COTTESWOLDS 95 



ass>gn the fossils picked up off the spoil-heaps to their probable 

 subdivisions on the evidence of any matnx which m.ght be 

 adhering to them, or in which they might be embedded. 



the same form as that which is abundant at Stantonbury HiU m 

 the Bath-Doulton District) are of distmct mterest.^ 

 AhnvP the lo feet of rock that these authors referred to the Upper 

 Above th.^^°.f^ °\,biue yellow and white oolite." Judgmg from 

 Th'fr r co?dofT^am,Sr;^^^^^^ mettensis, E. .ndU.. Cladophyma 

 and CoSnts ovalis. Leske. I should think that these beds embrace 

 ?he ^lL«fl-Limestones, for corals are sparsely distributed through 

 he ^4rJ;«a-Limestones of such sections - Avo-cliff'^^^^^^^ Brad 

 ford on- Avon- while Collyrites ovaiis is also a distinctive lossii 

 There appea?s'to be no evidence of the Upper Coral-Bed at Sodbury, 

 and it is absent also from the Horton section. 



In a disused quarry, a little to the south-east of the 

 " Cross-Hands Inn," are white oohtic hmestones— the equiva- 

 lents of the ^;ifl&«cm-Limestones and Doulting Stone. They 

 contain a few specimens of Terebratula glohata, auctt. non 

 Sow and Syncydonema dendssum (PhilHps) : the two subdivi- 

 sions' being separated by a layer of crystalline carbonate of 

 lime as at Horton (page 93). , . ^ 



Before leaving the beds of Garantiance and post-Gamn- 

 tiance date, it may be remarked that the " White_ Oolite " 

 was identified by Holl with his " Upper Ragstone and the 

 Clypeus-Gvit, plus the Upper Trigonia-Gnt, with his " Lower 



Ragstone." . 



At Sodbury there are the first definite indications of the 

 presence of beds between the Upper Trigonia-Grit and Cepha- 

 lopod-Bed. Now, unfortunately, the sections of them are few 

 and indifferent, but in HoU's time there were some in the lane 

 leading from the " Cross Hands Inn " to Old Sodbury, and— 

 as far as he could determine— the thickness of the intervening 

 beds was 8 to 11 feet. Of this, the bottom 2 or 3 feet was his 

 " Gms/ya-Bed "— our Scissum-Beds. Messrs Reynolds and 

 Vaughan allocate a thickness of from 30 to 35 feet to these 

 sub-Upper Trigonia-Grit Inferior-Oolite beds. 



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