532 L. Richardson— liliwiic Hocks at CJtarfield. 



with those of Dr. J. H. Parkinson, who refers ' similar beds in 

 Germany to the Tournaisian division. 



Since writing the above note Mr-. T. F. Sibley, B.Sc, has drawn 

 my attention to two specimens of a coral which he had himself 

 obtained from Coddon Hill, from beds in which he found none of 

 the fossils enumerated in the al)ove lists. This coral is, I have 

 little doubt, the species of Cijatliophyllum which characterizes the 

 upper beds of the laminosa subzone in the Mendip, Bristol, and 

 South Wales areas. Not only, then, do the Brachiopods and Corals 

 of the typical Coddon Hill Beds agree with those which are 

 characteristic of the main Zaphrentis zone in the surrounding 

 areas, but higher and lower hoiizons in the Tournaisian division 

 seem also to be represented in the immediate neighbourhood. 



It is necessary, however, to state that I am not personally 

 acquainted with the Coddon Hill district, and that my knowledge 

 of the fossils is entirely derived from specimens collected by other 

 geologists. 



III. — Notes on the Kh^tic Rocks around Charfield, 



Gloucestershire. 



By L. EicHAKDSox, F.G.S. 



rpHE object of this communication is to record some recently-made 



_L notes on the Ehaetic beds of the neighbourhood of Cliarfield. 



In 1876 Mr. H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., wrote : " Turning to the 

 escarpment of Penarth beds between Tites Point and Wickwar, we 

 find them exposed in many places. Long ago Sir Roderick Murchison 

 stated that ' passages from the Lias into the underlying New Red 

 Sandstone can be observed in the sides of Whiteclifif Park Hills, 

 south of Berkeley ; but the clearest and best instances are to the 

 east of Wickwar, near Sturt Bridge, on the sides of the new road 

 ascending to "Wotton."'^ This is all that has been written on 

 the area now under consideration. As is well known, the junction 

 of the Rhastic and Keuper Series is usually marked by a low but 

 distinct escarpment. Between Tites Point and Berkeley Road 

 Station this physical feature is not pronounced, but becomes 

 gradually more prominent to the south of the Junction. 



At Standhill Green, near Stinchcombe, a section of considerable 

 interest can be studied in the banks and bed of a small brook. Its^ 

 position is approximately indicated by an arrow on the Geological 

 Survey Map, Sheet xxxv. 



Section in Brook at Standhill Green, Stinchcomhe. 



1. Limestone mixed with marl. ft. ias. 



2. Pale-yellow marls much disturbed. 



3. E.sf/ieria-hed, 2 to 6 inches ..04 Lycopodites h/nceolatus, 



Esthcria iiiiiiiito, var. 

 Brodieaiia. 



4. Pale-yellow marls . . . about G Full of shell-framieute. 





1 Geol. Mag., June, 1904, pp. 272-276. 



2 Mem. Geol. Surv., "Geology of East Somerset and the Bristol Coalfields 

 (1876), p. 74 ; see also " Silurian 'System," p. 449. 



