364 REPORT— 1887. 



King's Heath Brewery, 3 miles south of Birmingham, and abo^it 1| mile from 

 the Edghasion Fault, which is probably a downthrow east of 240 feet. 

 • Boring made by Messrs. Le Grand and Sutcliffe for Messrs. Bates. 



Drift. 



Feet 



Old well 32 



Red sand 4 



Red mud and pebble 8 



Rough ballast 12 J 



Red marl 158 ] 



Gypsum and Keuper marls . . . . 131 [ Kputipp marU 



Marl, gypsum 309 f ^^"P^^ "^^r^^- 



Marl and shale 31 J 



Red stone and shale 91 Keuper sandstone (?). 



667 



The following is the section of the Rugby Corporation boring : — 



From surface Thickness 



Feet Feet 



400 Lias 400 



470 Rhstic beds 70 



1,140 Keuper marls 670 



— Keuper sandstone ( + ) 



The water at once rose in the borehole, but was so impregnated with 

 salt and gypsum as to be useless. 



Leicestershire. 

 Hinckley Boring, 1 mile W.N.W. of Hinckley. 



Surface level 317 feet above Ordnance datum ; water level 237 feet. Commenced 



November 1877. 



From surface Thickness 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



1 Soil 10 



31 Gravel and sand 31 



88 Boulder clay 57 



100 Upper Keuper sandstone 12 



496 Keuper marls 396 



700 Grey sandstone, marls, sands, and gypsum . . . 204 



749 Grey sandstone 49 



761 Hard brown sandstone . 12 



772 Soft white sandstone 110 



776 Hard grey sandstone 4 



782 Soft white sandstone 6 



783 Hard marl 10 



799 Soft fine white sandstone 16 



805 Hard gritty sandstone 6 



A 13-inch tube is carried down to the bottom of the boulder clay, a 

 10-inch tube to a depth of 161 feet, an 8-inch tube to 420 feet, a 7-inch 

 tube, with an inside diameter of 6| inches, to 473 feet, after which the 

 borehole is not tubed, but was carried to 754 feet by the advice of Mr. 

 Plant, F.G.S. In 1883 the board consulted Mr. Stooke, C.E., of Shrews- 

 bury, who advised a further boring, which was carried to a depth of 805 

 feet, with a diameter of 3 inches. An attempt to plug out the top saline 

 waters was made without success. 



