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have been noticed here, and the sandstone, whicli is pink in colour, 

 has also been quarried to some extent. It is overlain on the north 

 by alluvium and river-gravels, and to the west the lied Marl rises 

 above it, a lobe near the windmill running out due east, whilst Red 

 Marl also comes on to the south. 



In recent excavations for sewers the marly beds with sandstones 

 were exposed in the Loughborough Road during excavations for the 

 Derwent Valley Water Board. A footprint of Cheir other ium was 

 discovered here thirty years ago, in excavating at a depth of 3 feet 

 in sandstone proved to a depth of 3 ft. 6 in., wliich runs out 700 feet 

 north of the post office. The beds dip south-east. A. spoil-heap of 

 the marls and sandstones showed that they were abundantly ripple- 

 marked, some of the ripples bifurcating with a variable distance 

 between the crest and furrow. In the latter there were sun-cracks, 

 which occurred also separately. Here and there rill -marks and rain- 

 pittings occurred. A specimen showing pseudomorphs of salt crystals 

 was obtained. The sandstones in these instances were grey and 

 green, the marls reddish. A geode containing gypsum was found, 

 and a quartzose pebble 5 by 3 inches. 



AVhere the Lower Keuper Sandstones crop out beneath the Red 

 Marl on the west from Melbourne southward they are of little extent 

 in this area, though they spread westward for some distance. They 

 may be traced along the line of railway, being exposed here and 

 there, lying over the Carboniferous Limestone at Breedon Cloud. 

 From Worthington to Thriiigstone they form high ground over- 

 looking the Coal-measures around Ashby, which are faulted against 

 them, a ridge running north-west by south-east. Between Griffy 

 dam and Thringstone the base is a well-marked breccia, which is 

 thicker than the overlying sandstones, being exposed in several places. 

 The sandstones with a breccia at the base are seen at Gracedieu over- 

 lying the limestone shales. 



At and around Cole Orton the beds rise above the Middle Coal- 

 measures, as in [N'orth Staffordshire, in little hillocks, forming 

 picturesque country. In the Leicester and Burton railway cutting 

 at Breach Hill sandstones crop out above the coal-seams. There is 

 some boulder-clay and sand on the higher ground here which obscures 

 it, but it crops out in the valleys cut through by the streams. 



Though the greater part of the beds above the Coal-measures 

 around Asliby have been denuded, to the north-west ttiere is an 

 extensive patch of Lower Keuper Sandstone overlain by glacial clays 

 and sands, which is here an outlier, giving rise to a well-marked 

 feature with a noticeable scarp, except in the neighbourhood of 

 Lount on the east, and on the north, east of Hartshorn. About 

 Smisby and Pistern Hills ' Drift overlies it, but at the former place 

 white sandstones crop out with interbedded Red Marls. The beds 

 are about 80-100 feet thick here, with red marly beds below and 

 brown and yellow sandstones with flaggy partings. To the west of 

 Ashby a fault brings in some Permian beds near the station in the 



' A boring here proved Lower Keuper Sandstones and Marls, lying on 

 Coal-measures with no intervening Bunter, which is overlapped by the former 

 very widely. 



