114 A. R. Horwood — Upjjcr Truis of Leicestershtrc. 



raarl. The fragiuents of weathered syenite are triangular or sharply 

 angular or pentagonal in cross sectioTi, 1x3 inclies ; others are small, 

 and make up a gritty paste. The marl and sandy matter are all 

 composed of local rocks and are liighly saturated with iron oxide, 

 [n the top quarry only a few hands of skerry run through the 

 Red Marl on the east side. Along the west side in the top and 

 bottom of the top quarry they are more frequent and closer, 

 approximating to thick but laminated beds of sandstone, probably 

 equivalent to the Bardon skerry. They dip away to the south-west 

 on that side. In the second quarrj' at a lower level on the west side 

 thin beds of flaggy marl and sandstones and an interbedded thick 

 sandstone with larger grains of quartz and felspar, etc., dip away 

 gently on either side from the dome of granite, and when covering it 

 thev reunite and form a continuous but slightly undulatory band, 

 following the dome structure above, but becoming horizontal away 

 from the latter. The dome strikes north-west by south-east, and is 

 on tlie line of the anticlinal axis. The marl beds are identical on 

 either side of it, and merge into a thick white band at one point, as 

 at Bai'don and Hathern (in the Red Marl), of kaolinized minerals. 

 A. similar structui'e is seen at Enderby, which is a continuation of this 

 axis, where the Trias follows the dome structure in a similar manner. 

 Along the east side of the quarry skerry bands are aggregated into 

 a thickly laminated bed which lies just over the vsyenite, with an 

 even more or less horizontal bedding. Ripple-marks occur on more 

 than qne side of the flags of skeri-y, bluish in colour here, and their 

 direction is in the upper ones north-west by south-east, in the lower 

 north-east by south-west. These beds belong to the waterstones. 



At Forest Gate Keuper Marl covers the roofing slates, and at the 

 base are pebbles of quartz and breccia lying on the upturned edges of 

 the slates. 



Turning to the western boundary again, in the Wliitwick Shaft 

 (530 O.D.) 191 ft. Sin. Red Marl and sandstones lie over the thick 

 bed of dolerite, with white sandstones 3-4 feet thick and Red Marl 

 with waterstones. At the Coalville Waterworks boring (537 O.D.), 

 300 yards south of Whitwick Waste Farm, there were 113 feet of 

 drift, 47 feet of Red Marl, and 100 ft. 10 in. of Lower Keuper 

 Sandstone, overlying dolerite, green in colour. The beds in this 

 section were very abnormal, being purple in part, with fine breccia 

 like some Permian and Upper Carboniferous types. 



At Bardon Hill, in the third (juarry from the bottom on the south 

 side, there is a V-shaped gully filled with Red Marl and angular 

 blocks of the local rocks, overlaid by a horizontal band of Red and 

 Yellow Marl, rather gritty, and, like the scree, full of fragments 

 of local rocks. At two points yellow bands run down at right angles 

 to the others in a vertical manner. The gully trends north-west 

 by south-east, a similar gully being seen in section on the north 

 side. This coincides with the ripple-marks. 



In the fourth quarry ' from the bottom, on the south side, horizontal 



^ Along the top of this quarry run two beds of skerry which above show 

 white marl made up of kaolinized minerals at 800 feet. 



