Inverted Mass of U2Jper Cretaceoiis /StixUa. 57 



relatively unfossiliferous. The fa.ct that they are both characterized 

 by conspicuous small white nodules (white throughout) is a point 

 to be specially noted, since, owing to the rarity of fossils, the 

 presence of these nodules is helpful in identifying these beds in other 

 sections. Kingena lima (Defr.) and a few poorly preserved remains 

 of other brachiopods were found by us in the basement-bed here, 

 but only Belemnites minimus List, was seen in the clay above. The 

 characters of the clay, which are constant wherever these beds 

 occur around Shenley Hill, will be noted below in our account of 

 a section in the abandoned Garside's Pit (No. 4), adjaceiit to 

 Harris's Pit. 



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HorCzorhtxtl and. VertCcal Scale 



Fig. 3. — Diagram of the section in the western face of the sand-pit on the 

 north side of Miletree Farm (No. 8). 



6. Soil. 



5. Upper Gault Clay. 



4. Basement-bed of Upper Gault, coarse material with thin bands of 

 secondary ironstone ; resting unconformably on the Lower Greensand and 

 Passage-bed. 



3. Passage-bed between Lower Greensand and Lower Gault ; of 

 tardefurcafa-sige. A few dark phosphatic nodules and some partly indurated 

 sand-nodules occur scattered in the lower jDortion ; there is a line of clay- 

 stone nodules above the middle. 



2. Horizontally bedded Lower Greensand ; fine sand with clayey and 

 carbonaceous layers. 



L False-bedded Lower Greensand, not all shown in the Figure. 



The age of the clay cannot be determined at Miletree Farm, 

 where its higher and more fossiliferous ]3art is not present. In- 

 formation obtained at a section where a fuller development of it is 

 disjalayed (No. 9) shows that it must be ascribed to the Upper Gault. 

 We have nowhere seen any exclusively Lower Gault fossil in it. 



The relatively steep north-easterly dip of the clay and basement 

 bed shown on the north side of Miletree Farm is probably of quite 

 local significance, and is due to the fact that these beds rest on an 

 eroded slope of older strata. The occurrence of a rapid lateral 

 change is shown in the pit situated just south of the farm (No. 7), 

 where the relations of the Upper Gault to the underlying beds are 



