30 L. J. Wills—Fossiliferous Keuper at Bromsgrove. 
various quarries practically impossible. This variation is quite in 
keeping with the false bedding scen throughout in the sandstones. 
(See Fig. 1.) 
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Fic. 1.—Section seen in Mr. Griffin’s quarry. 
. Bed of marl. 
. Sandy shales. 
Thick-bedded but cross-grained sandstone. 
. Stains showing how the water comes out at base of marl bed. 
Part of tip heap, blocks of sandy shale. 
sages 
These are fine-grained, micaceous, red, and often flaggy at the top, 
and grey at the base. The topmost beds are only seen in Mr. Willcox’s 
south quarry. In the lower series no large beds of shale are present. 
Plant remains occur practically throughout; if in the red stone, they 
bleach it to a grey, or more often yellow colour. By this characteristic 
I have been able to detect similar plant remains in the sandstone 
surrounding the Droitwich basin at Belbroughton, Northfield, and the 
Tack Quarry at Hewell, as well as at the localities recorded by 
Murchison and Strickland. The sandstones often contain pebbles of 
marl, some of which, on fracture, occasionally show beautiful crystals 
of calcite, which also occurs commonly within the plant stems. 
Another curious mineral is green copper carbonate, which I have found 
both in the stems and as impregnations in the sandstone. These 
occurrences are comparable with that of the copper ores of Alderley 
Edge in Cheshire,! and possibly of Mansfeld? in the Hartz. At 
1 E. Hull: op. cit., pp. 54, 65, and 74. 
2 J. A. Phillips: ‘‘ Ore Deposits,’’ p. 28; London, 1884. 
