84 A. R. Hot wood — Upper /Trias of LeicestersJtire. 



reddish -brown colour, flaky, and highly ferruginous, giving it a baked 

 appearance. On the north side of the pit a deeper depression in the 

 syenite is filled with chocolate marl with several light bands in 

 a perfectly horizontal manner. 



In the pit south of the church Keuper lies on tlie flat surface of the 

 syenite. In the next pit, close to the Sapcote Road, Keuper Marl 

 lies on the syenite to the north. There is near the base of the 

 lied Marl here a thickish skerry band, which with the grey or green 

 bands above dips at a considerable angle. This maybe the equivalent 

 of the Upper Keuper Sandstone at Narborough, Croft, and Enderhy. 



At Croft the Keuper Marl dips soutli-east away from the core of 

 syenite at a high angle. Tliere are two marked skerry bands divided 

 by some twenty feet or more of marl. In one green band near the 

 top the colour is splashed and runs down vertically into the Red Marl, 

 as at Bardon Hill, where bands of green marl run down like ribbons 

 vertically into the intervening Red Marl. The skerry gTades from 

 a greenish marly rock into a white sandstone 6-10 feet thick, 

 slightly calcareous, with much garnet. At the base there is a breccia 

 of Red Marl with rounded blocks of syenite at some distance, and 

 these present an uneven pitted appearance. i 



Some of tliese fragments occur at a considerable height above the 

 line of junction, deposited in bands of green marl. Where the red 

 and green marl touch the line is often rippled and not perfectly even 

 in hand-specimens. The Red Marl presents the baked appearance of 

 beds seen at Star Brick Works, near the concretionary bed. The 

 dip of the beds seems to coincide closely with that of the Red Marl in 

 the bottom quarry, Stony Stanton, where on the north side it rises 

 from the cutting near the Sapcote Road. The manner in which the 

 marls exhibit a radial dip around the syenite bosses was noticed in 

 1884 by Mr. Harrison. There is here, as elsewhere in the case of 

 these syenite knolls, no intervening Lower Keuper Sandstone, which 

 has its eastern limit defined by a line drawn from near Desford 

 to a point between Hinckley and Elmesthorpe in the south. 



The Upper Keuper Sandstone of Croft is not traceable directly 

 between that place and Narboi'ough, but at Newhall Park a thin 

 band strikes north nearly as far as the King's Stand, and forming 

 a wide outcrop between there and Narborough Wood House, swings 

 round in a crescentic manner to the east, dying out north of the 

 latter place. The Red Marl where it is in contact with the igneous 

 rocks is not underlaid by Lower Keuper. 



At Endei'by, at Marston's Old Quarry in Coal Pit Lane, 10 feet of 

 drift overlies red and green marl, with a thick skerry or sandstone, 

 the equivalent of the Upper Keuper Sandstone, 12-15 feet, lying 

 over tilted syenite, with dome structure. The lowest beds exhibit 

 a clearly defined sharp junction with the marls, which lie on them 

 horizontally, only in one place, over a dome, as at Longcliffe, 

 assuming a slightly undulatory character. Many small thin layers 

 are massed together, and where separated by projections, like the 

 dome, continue uniformly on either side. Harrison describes these 

 sandstones as 2-4 feet thick, and says that they " follow the irregular 

 surface of the granite, and in one place fill up a deep hollow in the 



