230 NEW RED SANDSTONE. 



at Orton-on-the-Hill, north of Atherstone. The beds are also to 

 be seen near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



In Warwickshire the quarries in the Waterstones or " Lower 

 Warwick Sandstone " at Cubbington, Coton-End, and Guy's Cliff, 

 have yielded plant-remains, Lahyrinthodon and Cladyodon, also the 

 Lacertilian reptile Hyperodapedon. Warwick Castle was built of this 

 stone. At Rowington Plant-remains, also Paktoniscus siipers/es, were 

 obtained from the Upper Keupcr Sandstone.^ Leamington is 

 situated on the Keuper marls and sandstones, which there appear 

 to overlap the Bunter and rest on the Permian Beds. 



The following divisions of the Keuper Beds have been made in 

 Worcestershire by G. E. Roberts r — 



XT T- I Grey and red marls, with pseudomorphous crystals 



Mirh 1 °^ rock-salt. (Well seen at Crowle, east of 



( Worcester.) 40 feet. 



Upper Keuper ( Sandstone with Estheria, Plants, and Fish-remains. 



Sandstone. ( (Well seen at Pendock.) 20 ,, 



T T' ( Varie£;ated marls, with crypsum and pseudomorphous 



Lower Keuper 1 ^ . , . , ^\\ ,,,7 . r> -i 



].j , *^ { crystals of rock-salt. (Worcester Railway- 



( station.) Saliferous red marls. (Droitwich) 1000 ,, 



('Reddish micaceous sandstone, with Plant-remains. 



(Ombersley, Bellbroughton.) 20 ,, 



Cupriferous and micaceous sandstone. (Ombersley, 



Lower Keuper J Hagley, Bellbroughton.) 200 ,, 



Sandstones. 1 Thin-bedded red and white micaceous sandstone. 



(Drayton, Bellbroughton.) 30 ,, 



Thin grey calcareous bands. (Drayton.) 6,, 



Reddish breccia and conglomerate. (Hartlebury) 60 ,, 



The beds may be studied at Bromsgrove (Bromsgrove Sandstone), 

 Kidderminster, etc. Remains of Diptavnotus have been recorded 

 from Bromsgrove. (See Fig. 33, p. 217.) 



In Worcestershire, Warwickshire,^ and Gloucestershire, the beds 

 were described by Sir R. I. Murchison and Mr. H. E. Strickland, 

 and they speak of a thin course of impure limestone, which may 

 represent the Muschelkalk.* (See p. 221.) They refer to the Burge 

 Hill quarries near Eldersfield, in Keuper Sandstone, and the Ink- 

 berrow^ quarries, north-east of Worcester, where stone of a very 

 varied colour — white, red, and purple — has been obtained. 



Leamington, Warwick, Henley-in-Arden, Stratford-on-Avon, 

 Alcester, Newnham, and Worcester are situated on Red Marl, 

 which contains occasional beds of Sandstone. In the neighbour- 

 hood of Tewkesbury there is a bed of white sandstone 20 to 30 feet 

 in thickness in the Red Marl. 



Malvern Chase is situated on the Red Marl. Pendock and 

 Newent are on the Keuper Sandstone ; at Pendock the stone is 



^ Rev. P. B. Brodie, Q. J. xiv. 165 ; Howell, Geol. Warwickshire, p. 40. 

 ^ T. R. Jones, Mon. Fossil Estherire, pp. 62, 63 ; see also Rev. W. S. 

 Symonds and A. Lambert, Q. J. xvii. 152. 

 2 See Rev. P. B. Brodie, Q. J. xii. 374. 

 ^ T. G. S. (2), V. 331, 346. 



