110 A. R. Horwood — Ujyper Tricis of Leicestershire. 



Estheria 



Maris. 



Acrodus 

 Beds. 



Humus . . . . 



/ Brown false-bedded sandstone 

 Fissile green marl . 

 Flaggy brown sandstone 

 Fissile green marl . 

 Thin flags of sandstone . 

 Fissile green marl . 

 Thin layer of marl 

 Sandstone . . . . 



Fissile marl . . . . 



Brownish-white sandstone 

 Fissile marl . . . . 



Coarse white sandstone . 

 Thin marly parting 

 Coarse sandstone . 

 Marly band . . . . 



Sandstone partly false-bedded 

 Marl band . . . . 



False-bedded white sandstone 

 Marl band . . . . 

 False-bedded white sandstone 



15 7 (to 18 feet). 



ItVill be seen from tliis that the marlj' beds are mainly developed 

 above the sandstones. It is in these that abundant traces of Estheria 

 minuta occur, but occasionally they are found in the coarse sandstone. 

 Plant-remains and tracks of Crustacea or Annelids occur on the upper 

 marls, but are fragmentary. Some marl hands have carbonaceous 

 bands, especially the lowest. In the sandstones are fin-spines of 

 Acrodus keupermus and teeth of Acrodus. 



The petrology [supra) of these sandstones indicates their fluviatile 

 origin, there being two sizes of grains, none of which show the 

 polished character of desert sands. Kaolinized grains of felspar are 

 abundant, with a varying proportion of heavy minerals. The flaggy 

 beds are ripple-marked and show indications of raindrops and sun- 

 cracks. The sandstones are false-bedded to the south-east, in which 

 direction they thin out, whilst the marl beds, like calcareous strata in 

 normal aqueous deposits, thiu out in an opposite direction to the 

 north-west or west. A section showing this was exposed in the 

 llinckley Road, and was figured by Fox-Strangways. 



Recently the hilly ground between this quarry and the iS^ew Parks 

 has been opened up for building purposes, and the thick sandstones, 

 here much browner and with numerous black spots, have demonstrated 

 the extension of the beds in this direction. That they were extensive 

 northwards to Newfouudpool is shown by the numerous pits in the 

 hill upon which the new Convent is built. To the east about Dane 

 Hill a lenticular patch is shown by their outcrop and hy excavations. 

 A valley separates this tract from the Ashleigh House outcrop and 

 the Shoulder-of-Mutton Hill district. This area is now known as 

 New Parks. In the Western Park, south-west of the Convent, 

 a ballast cutting made when the adjacent railway cutting was 

 excavated shows 8 ft. 8 in. to 15 feet of the sandstones with no 



