206 FIELD GEOLOGY. 



Quarry (No. 1). Date 187 . 



10 feet, brown and red sandstone or freestone, 

 with red marl below; the surfaces of some 

 of the beds are plainly ripple-marked. 

 Dip. K 5. 



Quarry (No. 2). Date 187 . 



30 feet, alternating and varying beds of mica- 

 ceous sandstone and sand, indistinctly bedded, 

 with shaley divisions and patches of gypsum. 

 The uppermost part of this section is in a cal- 

 careous shale, with detached and weathered 

 pieces of limestone (? Magnesian). Few fossils 

 only occur; these are occasional pieces of a 

 substance presenting a woody structure (? Co- 

 niferous), and in the shales above some fishes* 

 scales. Dip S. 10. 



FOSSILS. 



(In the Sand.) Coniferous Wood. 

 (In the Shales.) Palceoniscus comptus. 



Quarry (No. 3). Date 187 . 



40 feet, magnesian limestone, tabular and 

 jointed, in beds from 2 to 4 feet thick, with 

 thin earthy layers between. The upper beds 

 are light-grey in colour, with many fossils and 

 some concretions, also traces of ripple-marks. 

 Lower down the stone gets harder and in 

 some cases granular ; the lowest beds are of 



