270 T. C. Cantnll — Keuper Outlier near Kidderminster. 



ft. in. 



1. Sandstone, soft, fine-grained, micaceous, red, with greenish-grey spots . I 



2. Sandstone, soft, coarse, very incoherent, dull red, passing down into 3 . 2 



3. Sandstone, fine, dull red 12 



4. Sandstone, calcareous, with large flakes of white mica 10 



5. Sandstone, soft, fine-grained, dull red, passing down into 6 . . . . 4 6 



6. Sandstone, coarse, hard, calcareous, dull reddish-grey, with marl pebbles 6 



[Below this the beds become very irregular by curved bedding.] 



7. Sandstone, coarse, soft, red, with marl pebbles 5 



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These beds are probably of about the same horizon as those at the 

 East Quarry. 



10. Half a dozen yards further on is the West Quarry, the largest 

 and last on the scarp. The bedding is very irregular, and the 

 section is probably as follows : — 



Section at the West Quarut. ft. in. 



1. Sandstone, soft, red at least 6 



2. Marl band, irregular 2 



3. Sandstone, laminated, fissile, micaceous 2 6 



4. Sandstone, hard, coarse, dull red 4 



5. Sandstone, hard, calcareous, dull reddish-grey 6 



6. Marl band 2 



7. Sandstone, like 4 30 



16 4 

 There is some faint resemblance here to the beds exposed in the 

 quarry last described, half a dozen yards away. 



11. Some considerable distance on, at about ten yards down the 

 slope, are some shallow trenches in coarse dull-red sandstone, of the 

 Keuper. 



The above are the main exposures on the scarp slope. As the 

 general dip seems to be about E.S E., probably the beds at the top 

 of the East Quarry are the highest exposed along the scarp, and are 

 about 35 ft. above the base : reckoning the lowest beds in the East 

 Quarry to overlie the highest in the Pit Quarry, and the bottom beds 

 in the latter to be about four feet above the Bunter. 



A cornstone band crops out nearly at the top of the hill, and the 

 summit, of dull-red sandstone, is about 60 ft. aboA^e the top of the 

 Bunter : so that we have in the outlier a thickness of at least 60 ft. 

 of Keuper beds. 



At the south end of the hill, overlooking the valley, is a grassy 

 bank, too steep for cultivation, along the bottom of which for some 

 yards the fault rock pi'ojects in thick masses. Immediately below 

 the fault rock the Bunter appears. The fault rock itself consists 

 chiefly of slabs of very hard sandy rock, ringing under the blows of 

 the hammer, highly calcareous, and dark-coloured with manganese 

 oxide. It frequently contains small cavities. At certain points 

 broken and slickensided fragments of Bunter occur. The slabs dip 

 into the hill at an angle of 60° ; the hade of the fault is therefore 

 30° and its direction is north-east and south-west, with the down- 

 throw to the north-west. 



A few feet higher up and at the south-west end of the bank, on 



