MEADFOOT BEDS. 



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measures to the north, runs along the bottom of the valley, and no junction-sections 

 are to be seen. The Culm-measures at Combe, Heston, and Whiteway Farms, 

 dip to the south-east as if they would pass under the Devonian Limestone. 

 Hence, if the beds be not actually inverted, there must be a considerable fault 

 running along the valley between Lyndridge Hill and Ideford. An inversion might 

 help us to account for the mass of limestone stretching from Oldchard Well to 

 Ugbrooke House, near Chudleigh, and which is situated in the midst of Culm- 

 measures. The Devonian slates exhibit contortions in many places. (See Fig. 18.) 



The researches of Mr. Champernowne have led him to divide 

 the beds in South Devon as follows : but it should be understood 

 that there are no hard lines between the divisions, and that the 

 Berry Park Slates might be included as Upper Devonian, and the 

 Lower Slates as Lower Devonian : ' — 



Upper Devonian. 



Middle 

 Devonian 



Lower ( 

 Devonian. ( 



Torquay. 

 Cockington Beds. 



Berry Pai'k Slates ; and 

 Ashprington Series. 

 Great Devon Limestone. 

 Lower Slates. 



T, ( Lincombe and Warberry 



Torquay J ^.^j^^^ ^ 



^'■"^- (Meadfoot Beds. 



North Devon (See p. 123.) 

 Pickwell Down Sandstones. 



Morte Slates 



and 

 Ilfracombe Beds. 



Hangman Grits. 

 Lynton Slates. 



LOWER DEVONIAN. 



Meadfoot Beds. 



These beds have been so named by Mr. Pengelly from 

 their exposure at Meadfoot, east of Torquay. They consist of 

 grey and brownish grits and slaty beds, which well exhibit the 

 phenomena of cleavage, bedding, and jointing. They pass up 

 into the Lincombe and Warberry Grits, and are the oldest strata 

 exposed near Torquay. They probably represent the Lynton Slates. 

 They contain in abundance Pleurodictyum problematicum {P. proble- 

 maiicum beds), etc. 



Mr. Pengelly obtained a scale of Phyllolepis concentn'ats at the 

 base of the cliff between Meadfoot beach and the Thatcher Rock, 

 Torbay. 



Lincombe and "Warberry Grits. 



These beds were named by Mr. Champernowne from their oc- 

 currence at Lincombe and Warberry, near Torquay. They consist 

 of red and grey quartzose and sometimes flaggy grits, interstratified 

 with sandy shales. They have been opened up south of Kent's 

 Hole, in the Lincombe new drive, also near Ellacombe, near Upton 



^ Proc. Geol. Assoc, viii. 442, 458. 



