Rev. H. H. Winwood — Well Section, Lansdoicn, Baih. 119 



In the original Report (Appendices, pp. 146-158) this Memorandum 

 is followed by a " Chronological List of Works relating to Coast- 

 erosion, Coast-accretion, and Coast-deposits of England and Wales", 

 dating from 1675 to 1907. A few further entries may be made in 

 a later lleport. 



The Appendix by Mr. Rkid, already referred to, is followed by 

 Appendices by Professor Lkbofr and Mr. R. H. Wokth (Northumber- 

 land, Durham, and South Devon, pp. 175-184), a map of the Wash by 

 Mr. W. H. Wheeler, and a statement by Mr. T. M. Reade (Rhyl to 

 Gosforth, pp. 209-211). 



VI. — Notes on a Well-sinking in the Great Oolite of 

 Lansdown, Bath. 



By the Rev. H. H. Winwood, M.A., F.G.S. 



rPHE following particulars were obtained with the assistance of 

 JL Mr. Isaac Sumsion, jun., Hon. Sec. of the Golf Club: — 



Section of Well in Great Oolite 



at the Lansdowu Golf Club, north of the Blathwait Arms, Lansdown, on the 750 ft. 



Contour, 1908. 



Thickness. Depth. 

 ft. in. ft. iu. 



Great 

 Oolite. 



Fuller's 

 Earth. 



Turf and mould ...... 



Brown, fissile, shelly, oolitic limestones, coarse 

 and crystalline ; the organic remains very 

 fragmentary ...... 



Yellow, more solid beds of oolite, lighter in 

 colour- than beds above and finer in grain 



Very fossiliferous bed, one portion composed 

 entirely of well-preserved shells of Ilhynchonella 

 cottcinna, R. obsoleta, and Terebrattiln . 



Close-grained tough beds of finer oolite, in part 

 crystalline. So-called ' Bastard Oolite ', used 

 for walling ...... 



Thin seam of yellow clay .... 



[ Blue limestone, non-oolitic .... 



Blue clay ....... 



Yellow clay ....... 



Yellow, compact, oolitic rock .... 



Thick yellow oolite ..... 



Yellow clay parting ..... 



Thick, yellow, drusy, oolitic limestone 



Coarse-grained, tough, yellow, oolitic limestone 



Thin oolitic band, moist ..... 



Yellow clay ....... 



Blue limestone, banded with yellow . 



Blue clay ....... 



Blue limestone, partially oolitic 



Light-blue greasy clay, with hard, fossiliterous, 

 shaly, limestone bands, fossil wood, and ' cone- 

 in - cone ' ; Ostracoda, Cythere oscillum, C. 

 splicerulata, Cytheridea liradiaiia, etc., and 

 some Lamellibranchs ..... 



1 



6 6 



7 6 



5 



1 



7 6 

 15 



15 



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