404 L. Richardson — Great Oolite near 8tow-on-the-Wold. 



public, on this as on every other subject, Lord Kelvin's judgment is 

 law. Weighed in the public scales. Lord Kelvin will pull down 

 every geologist, past, pi'esent, and to come. 



I have not the smallest ambition, in the matter of granite or in 

 any other, to convert geologists to my own way of thinking. I only 

 seek information in order that my own way of thinking may be 

 corrected if erroneous. 



IV. — Note on a Section of Great Oolite Beds at Condicote, 



NEAR StOW-ON-THE-WoLD. 



By L. EicHARDsox, F.G.S. 



ONE mile north - west by west of Condicote in the North 

 Cotteswolds, a village distant about 2£ miles in the same 

 direction from Stow-on-the-Wold, there is a quarry iu which the 

 following beds are exposed : — 



Section near Condicote. ft. iu, 



1. Dark-coloured soil 1 4 



2. YeUo^\asli, clayey marl, -with a little rubble of whitisli and slightly oolitic 



limestoue iu places uear the top ; RhynchoneUa concinna, Terehratula 

 niaxillata, Ataphrus Lahadyei, Cerithium (smooth species), Nerincea 

 of. Dufrenmji, D'Arch., N. cf. Voltzi, Desl., Chemnitzia cf. 

 hamptonensis, M. & L., Isastrcea limitata with specimens of Ostrea 

 adhering to it, Mierosolena (probably 31. porosa, Lam.), Modiola 

 LonsdaJei, Triffonia picUus, Ostrea Soiverbyi ... ... ... ... 1 11 



3. Grey, someT\'hat arenaceous, flaggy limestone ; Ostrea ?iS.. acuminata ... 6 



Eeference to the Geological Survey map, Sheet 44, will show the 

 exact position of the quarry : to the south of the junction of the 

 road from Condicote to Scarborough with that leaving the main 

 road opposite the lane which comes past Eook Pool Barn (now 

 Kinetonhill Farm) and Kook Pool. The area in which the quarry 

 is situated is thus indicated as being composed of Inferior Oolite 

 rocks. The fauna contained in Bed 2, and especially the 

 Bliynclwnella and Terebratida, clearly shows that this is an error. 

 I am indebted to Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.E.S., for kindly examining 

 the Gasteropods. Their state of preservation only allowed of their 

 being identified approximately, but, as Mr. Hudleston observed, 

 " they certainly wear a Bathonian facies rather than that associated 

 with the Inferior Oolite." ^ Mr. R. F. Tomes, F.G.S., kindly 

 determined the corals. The specimen of Trigonia obtained agrees 

 with that figured by Lycett in his " Monograph of the British Fossil 

 Trigonice," pi. xxxiv, fig. 9, as T. pidlus; but not with the 

 T. pidlus of Sowerby. 



There is no doubt whatever as to the age of the deposit, and the 

 section is useful in that it affords an opportunity for investigating 

 the lithic and faunal characters of the Great Oolite strata at the most 

 northerly point at which they are preserved in the Cotteswold Hills. 



1 In litt. July 7th, 1903. 



