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1911 



The prominent bed of limestone in 19-20 and the richness 

 of bed 14 in gastropods are the most noteworthy features of 

 this section. The faunal and Uthic characters of the Lower 

 Nerinaea-Bed are precisely the same as those of the equivalent 

 bed in the quarry near Lower Swell, near Stow-on-the-Wold. 



Whitequarry-Hill Quarry.— This quarry (73) is now 

 abandoned, but the Chipping-Norton Limestone and marly 

 oolites and clays of the Neaeran Beds are exposed, although 

 often puzzlingly intermingled. 





' parts 

 of 3.4 

 and 5 



13- 

 14- 



C.N.L. 



Xo. 73. WHITEQUARRY-HILL QUARRY 



Thickness in feet ins. 



Limestone, white, well-oolitic, with occasional pieces 



of lignite and tubular infiUings ; Ostrea : seen . . 3 o 



Rhynchotiella- and Ostrea-Bed. Marl and marly stone, 

 pale-yellow ; Ostrea, Rhyn. concinna, auctt., Tere- 

 bratida. Trapezium, etc. : average . . . . . . 06 



Ostrea-Clay. Clay, tough, dark-brown ; Ostrea\-<ivy 



abundant in the upper portion . . . . . . 05 



(Beds 6 to II, incl., absent). 



Marl, brown, sandy, intimately associated with the bed 



below , Ostrea very common : 4 to 6 ins. . . . . 05 



Limestone, rubbly ; Homomya vezelayi (Lajoye), Os- 

 trea, Trigonia co<itata, Vnlsella sowerhyana (d'Orh.) . . o 10 



Similarly-coloured shaly marl and rubble ; Ostrea . . 05 



Limestone, often massive-bedded ; Clypeus miilleri \Vr. 2 o 



Greenish clayey marl, often preponderating, passing j 

 down into 



Brown clayey, sandy marl, and this into 



Brown sand 



Purplish clay, with Placunopsis socialis 

 ^ Brown sand with lumps of limestone . . 



Limestone (with waterworn surface) flaggy, oolitic : seen 8 o 



Below the Chipping-Norton Limestone is the Clypeus-Gvit. 

 Typical pieces of rock of this subdivision can be picked up at 

 the spring near Hill Farm, Chastleton, and at the top of the 

 bank above that at Cornwell (70). 



Below the Clypeus-Gvit at Cornwell is a thin representative 

 of the Amusium-personatum-Limestones of the Pea-Grit Series, 

 and below these again, the Scissmn-Beds. The Scissum-Beds 

 are best seen in a small way-side section near the spring (at 72), 

 and have yielded the usual fossils — Rhyn. suhdecorata, Dav., 

 Pholadomya fidicula, Sow., Volsella sowerbyana (d'Orb.), etc. 



