384 REPORT—1885. 
From surface Thickness 
ft. in. ft, cin. 
247 2 34. Red stone 5 6 
251 2 35. Blue stone 5 5 : : 5 : 4 0 ¢ 
257 8 36. Red bind, with hard list and white partings 6 6 
263 2 37. Red sandstone, with thin white partings . 5 ae ae 
269 8 38. Blue stone, thin beds, and blue bind partings . eRe x 
286 2 39. Blue bind, with thin beds of blue stone . 66 4 
297 2 40. Red bind, with thin beds of gypsum 5 2 «il ,0 
305 5 41. Blue bind, with soft beds of gypsum 2 : hee we 
337 10 42. Dark soft red bind . = ; A 4 pday eis) 
341 10 43. Blue stone . é H 3 = : 5 » 4 0 
511 4 44. Red sandstone . ; c F F : : . 169 6 
513 4 45. Red bind . ‘ é 3 ; , 4 “ sie al 
529 10 46. Red sandstone . : ‘ 5 2 3 a o> 16; 36 
533 4 47. Red bind, withlists of blue stone . . - +2 3. 6 
766 10 48. Red sandstone . { : : t i < . 233 6 
770 0 49. Red bind with bright shining specks f 2 WaT 
772 10 50. Dark red bind . : : , : P F 2 10 
784 4 651. Red sandstone . . ; - 2 2 . “peild 6 
785 4 62. Dark red bind . : 9 : ‘ : % Sree Ae) 
804 10 53. Red sandstone . : ; 5 4 A - . 19’ 6 
807 1 54. Red bind . ‘ : } ; : ‘ é ee ts 
881 4 55. Red stone. : : F 4 - : 3 « The 3 
882 4 56. Red bind . ° : : 3 - - 5 peg) 
906 10 57. Red stone : : q i , 3 : . 24 6 
910 8 58. Soft red bind . : ‘ : ; ; 5 . 310 
930 10 59. Red sandstone . : A ; A - ¢ wm20nm 2 
931 10 60. Dark red bind . 5 : . é 5 c - i O 
955 10 61. Red sandstone . : : : : 3 3 » 24.0 
957 1 62. Dark red bind . : : $ ‘ i a‘ .- a 3S 
995 4 63. Red sandstone . F : 4 . ‘ . 38 8 
998 4 64. Light red sandstone . : - : ; F . 2 O 
1029 0 65. Red sandstone 3 ser : : - . 30 8 
, ; 1029 0O 
In abstract, the section will stand as follows :— 
ft. in. 
Beds 1to14. Drift. B . P , ‘ s ‘ . 69 8 
Beds 15 to 43. Keuper marls with hard bands and gypsum . 272 2 
Bed 44. Red sandstone ‘ : i : 4 2 - 169 6 
Beds 45 to 47, Red sandstone with 54 feet of red ‘binds’ . » 22 0 
Bed 48. Red sandstone , . 5 4 s , . 233 6 
Beds 49 to 62. Red sandstone, with 16 feet 4 inchesof red‘ binds’ 190 3 
Beds 638 to 65. Red sandstone . ; A ‘ 71 11 
1029 0 
Ont of 687 feet 2 inches of beds beneath the Keuper marls, only — 
21 feet 10 inches consists of red binds, the rest being 665 feet 4 inches 
of red sandstone of similar physical character from top to bottom. They 
have been referred by Dr. Parsons to the Bunter. 
In considering their age and character, it may be useful to compare 
this section with the borings for salt in the Middlesbrough district, 
especially that at Saltholm Farm, on the Durham side of the Tees 
(‘Sixth Report Underground Water’). I there. suggest that ‘the lime- 
stones, thick salt beds, and gypsum are probably referable to the Permian ; 
the intervening beds of red sandstone, 832 feet, are probably referable to | 
the waterstones and lower mottled Bunter, the Upper Mottled and Pebble — 
Beds having thinned ont.’ From more extended investigation, I think it 
more probable that the pebbly character of the middle portion of the — 
Bunter has died away northwards, and that the Middlesbrough section 
represents Waterstones, pebbleless Middle Bunter and Lower Bunter. 
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