76 A. R. H or wood — U'pper Trias of Leicestershire. 



The Bunter beds seem to die out in the neighbourhood of Market 

 Bosworth, being proved in the King's Hill boring. The age of the 

 movements causing these foldings parallel with the Charnwood and 

 jS'uneaton ridges is post-Carboniferous, for both the older rocks and 

 the Coal-measures are affected. Moreover, the latter were greatly 

 denuded before tlie Permian breccias were deposited. The latter, too, 

 are not influenced by these folds, so that they must be, as Browne 

 states, pre-Permian. In this area the Lower Keuper sandstones rarely 

 exceed 150 feet, and they thin out to the east. They resemble 

 the beds in District (1), consisting of sandstones with marly beds 

 between. 



In the north-west the sandstones form high ground, making a ridge 

 from Meashara to Willesley. At Willesley this ridge rises to 450 feet, 

 running north and south, and the sandstones crop out. At the south 

 end of the Park they terminate abruptly, the Coal-measures being 

 faulted up against them and the Permian breccias below, but the fault 

 is overlapped by the two later beds. From here to Measham the 

 Lower Keuper forms a good feature further east. 



Further south in the Mease Valley a boring at Coton Park Colliery 

 (250 O.D.) showed the Lower Keuper Sandstone to be 63 feet thick, 

 overlying 228 feet of Bunter. At Netherseal, north of the River 

 Mease, the outcrop bifurcates, striking west, and is cut out by a fault 

 at Gunby Lea (south-west by north-east). At the Colliery it is 

 obscured by Boulder-clay, but in the No. 1 boring Trias and Permian 

 to a depth of 263 ft. 6 in. were pierced 1,000 yards south-east of 

 Grange Wood House (256 O.D.). To the north-west at Caldwell 

 the sandstone is predominant, massive beds with marly partings 

 dipping south-west at 5 degrees being cut through in the colliery 

 branch-line. 



At Stretton-en-le-Field, east of the River Mease, in a boring at 

 Saltersford, 2 feet of Marl under 9 feet of sand and gravel overlaid 

 drab rock and brown bind, etc., and in another boring 10 feet of soil, 

 sand, and gravel overlaid 18 ft. 1 in. of Eed Marl and brown and 

 grey rock. 



Southward in the Chilcote boring (270 O.D.) the Trias was 704 feet 

 thick, there being 600 feet of Bunter with twenty-one beds of 

 conglomerate or red sandstone with pebbles and 70 feet of Lower 

 Keuper Sandstone (or 100 feet perhaps), with 30 feet of Permian 

 breccia overlying 300 feet of Coal-measures with no coal-seams. At 

 Appleby No. 1 boring. White House, 578 feet of Trias, with probably 

 some Permian, overlaid 396 feet of Coal-measures. The second boring 

 at Bird's Gorse, Side Hollows, appears to have passed through 

 110 ft. 9 in. Lower Keuper sandstones and marls, 333 ft. 9'| in. 

 Bunter, lying over Coal-measures with coals. A third boring at 

 Appleby Hall, near Roe House, passed through 154 ft. 3 in. marls 

 with gypsum and 455 ft. 3 in. of sandy beds without pebbles, some of 

 which as in the other borings may be Permian and the rest Bunter. 

 The Bunter thus thins out and becomes abnormal within a very short 

 interval. About Measham it is overlapped by the Lower Keuper 

 sandstones, which crop out in the brickyards to the east of the station. 

 In one place 4 feet of Lower Keuper Sandstone is seen to overlie 



