Inhxi- Jurassic Movements. 199 



Mr. L. Richardson has since shown that some of these folds, 

 notably those in the northern Cotteswolds, at Bredon and Moreton, 

 are indicated also by the Rhsetic rocks, which attain a great develop- 

 ment at Dunhampstead, on the line of the Bredon syncline, and 

 which show a non-sequence at Church Lawford, in the Vale of 

 Moreton, along the anticlinal flexure. Richardson also stated that 

 the Moreton anticline was probably a continuation of the Pennine 

 axis/ 



II. Other Possible Anticlinal Axes. 



Examination of the geological map discloses the existence of other 

 localities where the outcrops of the Liassic rocks suffer a local twist 

 from what one may regard as the normal north-easterly to south- 

 westerly strike. Such swings are noticeable at the following 

 localities taken in order from north to south : — 



1. Melton Mowbray. 4. Banbury. 



2. ? Market Harborough. 5. Vale of Moreton. 



3. Weedon. 6. Winchcombe. 



But whereas the anticlinal structure has been definitely shown to 

 exist, as noted already, at several of these localities, it has not been 

 proved in the remaining cases. Yet, judging by analogy, it at once 

 appears probable that the places mentioned are situated on or near 

 the lines of anticlinal axes. In the following pages the available 

 evidence as to the existence of such lines is examined, the age of the 

 movements is considered, and the jDossible bearing of the flexures 

 upon the deep-seated structures is discussed. 



It is at once apparent that the postulated anticlines are not 

 equally well developed, but that the flexuring is most poAverful 

 in the case of the two western anticlines, the Vale of Moreton and the 

 Winchcombe folds. In these two cases the outcrops are twisted to 

 such an extent that further evidence of the presence of anticlinal 

 folding is hardly needed. These anticlines are evidently structures 

 of considerable magnitude, and each is clearly accompanied by its 

 complementary syncline, the Chipping Campden syncline and the 

 Bredon syncline.'^ But in the case of the other anticlines mentioned 

 above, the evidence from the map is not so clear, and additional 

 evidence is needed before the anticlinal character of the respective 

 localities can be considered as established. 



One reason for the necessity of further evidence is that each of 

 the postulated anticlines through Banbury, Weedon, and Market 

 Harborough respectively, is related to the line of a river valley or 

 valleys ; the combination of river valley, horizontal strata, and 

 relatively high relief might suffice to explain in each case the local 



^ Richardson, " The Evidence for a Non-Sequeiice between the Keuper 

 and Rhsetic Series in North-West Gloucestershire, etc." : Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. Ix, 1904, xjp. 349-58. 



2 The Bredon syncline, as Mr. Buckman has sliown, is a prolongation of the 

 Cleeve Hill syncline (Buckman, op. cit., 1903). 



