T. Mellard Reade—The Cromer Forest Bed. 221 
From the position of this quarry with respect to others close by in 
the Millepore Rock, it seems probable that these argillaceous beds 
represent the base of the Kelloway Rock. Moreover, the presence 
of clayey beds below is in conformity with the Cayton Bay series, 
where a gradual passage is described by Mr. Hudleston down into 
the Avicula echinata shales. 
North of Newbald the outcrop is easily traced for a good way on 
the east side of the road, and on the road dipping down into Sancton 
Valley it makes another V-shaped curve, and returns as the road 
rises again. Close to the church is an exposure about 25 ft. high. 
It is altogether in the lower beds. At the base is a slightly clayey 
development (44 ft. thick), but without fossils. This passes upwards 
into a magnificent section of about 20 ft. of the white barren sand- 
rock. Here, however, it is poorer than elsewhere, and has the pale 
glistening mica plates almost throughout. Hence the rock is more 
finely split up than in the other localities. Near the top, however, 
is a faint indication of incipient concretionary action, and the joint- 
ing there is not so perfect. Very thin layers of irony material and 
indistinct plant-remains are seen at intervals. The uppermost part 
of the section is ploughed into by an irregularly lodged mass of 
boulders and churned-up chalk, clay, and sand. No foreign rocks 
were obtained amongst the boulders. All were either portions of 
the Kelloway Rock (e.g. displaced concretions and masses of the 
upper hard rock), or Millepore Oolite with a considerable amount of 
Red and White Chalk powdered up. 
Dip about 5° E.8.E. 
Beyond this point the outcrops of the Red Chalk and the Mille- 
pore Rock approach one another more and more, leaving less room 
for the Kelloway Rock, until in a field near the bend in the road 
about a mile and a quarter from Market Weighton, the last evidence ~ 
was obtained by a newly sunk well, the turnings out of which 
showed the presence of the Lower Sands. 
Across the valley running east from Market Weighton the Kello- 
way Rock is hidden from view, and the whole of the Oolites are 
overlain completely by the Chalk. 
From this brief description it will appear that, taken as a whole, 
the Kelloway Rock of this district resembles very closely, lithologi- 
cally and paleeontologically, the same rock in North Yorkshire. The 
rocks are essentially similar, and in both districts there are two 
fossiliferous beds separated by an unfossiliferous portion, and it is in 
the upper bed that the Cephalopoda and larger Lamellibranchs first 
make their appearance. 
V.—Soms Suceustions on THE Cromer Forest Ben. 
By T. Mettarp Reape, F.G.S. 
capes many other geologists at the present time, I have been 
engaged in reading Mr. Clement Reid’s Memoir on the Geology 
of the Country around Cromer—reading it, I may say, with mingled 
feelings of pleasure and pain ;—pleasure, at the amount of interesting 
