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There is a strong white sandstone 9 feet thick at 235 feet, and a stony- 

 sandstone 3 feet thick at 282 ft. 5 in. At ISTailstone (500 O.D.) there 

 Avere 180 feet Ked Marls and skerries, light-blue sandstone rock 

 12 feet, marls and skerries 60 feet, conglomerate 5 feet thick, the 

 lower part Lower Kenper. 



The sandstone which is seen at the surface at Shackerstone and 

 Carlton Bridge may represent the Orton-on-the-Hill Sandstone. 



k. boring at Newbold Verdon (400 O.D.) shows — 



Sand and marl 



Bed Marl and gypsum . 



Grey rock, probably skerry 



Marl and gypsum . 



Marl and sand 



Grey rock 



Pink and purple marl 



Hard grey grozzly bed . 



Soft parting . 



Hard rock with red and blue partings 



368 3 



The lowest 100 feet is probably in the Lower Keuper here. 



In a boring at Stockshouse Earm, Peckleton. (400 O.D.), 372 feet 

 Keuper Marl and Sandstone overlaid 88 feet of Coal-measures, 

 iS feet Millstone Grit, 27 ft. 6 in. Carboniferous Limestone, and 

 37 ft. 6 in. of a rock resembling Warwickshire camptonite or diabase. 



De E,ance gives a section at Desford of 213 feet marl and 140 feet 



' waterstones. At Desford No. 1 (400 O.D.) 256 ft. 3 in. of Red Marl, 



gypsum, sandstone, and skerries overlaid a conglomerate 6 feet thick. 



Three beds of sandstone 2-15 feet thick were encountered, the last 



(Lower Keuper) at 239 ft. 3 in. 



Several borings were made at Lindridge, near Desford, nearer 

 Eagworth. At No. 1 at 325 O.D., close to the lodge near Lindridge 

 Hall, the section was given as — fggt^ 



Drift 2 



Upper Keuper Sandstone 



Eed Marl and gypsum 



Lower Keuper Sandstone 



Slaty Eocks, Eed Marls, dipping at 70"^ 



20 



44 



204 



114 



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De Ranee gives this as at 400 O.D. and only gives 270 feet. At 

 No. 2 in the south-west corner of a field south of the farm, 1 mile 

 west of No. 1, 277 feet of Keuper Sandstone overlaid 10 ft. 9 in. blue 

 bind, 9 inches stony bind and Coal-measures and five coals 100 feet 

 thick. At the shaft, a quarter of a mile south-west of No. 1 (325 feet), 

 the section was — i^_ in_ 



Upper Gypseous Series . . . . 50 2 



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