STTBDITISIOK'S OF THE OOLITE. 



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Oxford Clay, Kel- 

 loway Rock. 



f Dark blue clay, with Septa- 

 ria; sometimes slaty and 

 bituminous ; with a subor- 

 dinate band of ferrugi nous 

 sandy limestone ( Kel. 

 Rock.) 



Chippenham and "Wooton 

 Basset, Wilts; Oxford, 

 Yorkshire, &c. 



{Coarse, rubbly limestone, 

 thinly laminated with 

 layers of clay. 



Stanton, Malmsbury, Ash- 

 ford, Wilts. 



f Thinly laminated shelly *| Corsham, Box, &c., Wilts, 

 Forest Marble . s limestone, sand, and grit- > Sapperton, Bradford; 

 stone, with layers of clay, j Cirencester. 



f Layers of clay; sometimes 

 Bradford Clay . -| alternating with bands of 

 (_ limestone. 



Great Oolite 



("Oolitic shelly limestone, 

 I more or less compact and 

 | sandy, sometimes thick- 

 L bedded. 



Bradford, Burfield, Pick- 

 wick, Tetbury. 



Bath, Bradford, Minchin- 

 hampton Common (very 

 fossiliferous.) 



__'.,. /-. . .1 T> ii. C C a ) Clavton and Gris- 



On the Yorkshire Coast the Great or Bath j thorpe Bavs 



(b) Clough ton and White 

 Nab. 



Oolite (b) (a hard blue limestone ; fine- 

 grained oolite; hard bluish clay ;) is contained 



between two thick beds (a, c,) of gritty lami- 

 nated sandstones and shales, containing an 

 abundance of terrestrial plants. 



(c) Between Cloughton 

 Wyke and Blue 



. Wick. 



Stoned 



gritty "I Stonesfield,Oxon; Seven- 

 J hampton Common, &c. 



Fuller's Earth 1 

 Clay. f 



Bath, Box ; near Stroud 

 and Hampton Common. 



Inferior Oolite 



( Two layers of coarse shelly 

 ragstone, with intervening 

 -{ bands of marl, and soft 

 j freestone. Fine grained 

 I sandstone and ironstone. 



Dundry,Painswick ;Brim- 

 I scombe ; the Cotteswold 

 Hills ; Blue Wick, 

 Yorkshire. 



Lias 



fAlum shale; rubbly and 

 J sandy shales, &c. 

 | Lower lias limestones and 

 [_ shales. 



Whitby, Redcar, York- 

 shire ; Gloucestershire, 

 Somerset, Lyme-Regis, 

 &c. 



