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passage downwards into the variegated marls whicli appear along 

 the cliff, at the base of the Greensand and Chalk. West of Seaton, 

 they form' low cliffs of marl, which appear again at Branscombe, 

 dipping gently to the east. Continuing towards Sidmouth, the beds 

 become less calcareous and finally quite loamy, until lower down in 

 the series sandstone crops out at Sidmouth, foiming a gentle anti- 

 clinal at the town, and being overlain again by loamy beds to the 

 west. Here the sandstone contains seams of red and mottled clay. 

 Continuing westwards the sandstone, containing seams of calcareous 

 conglomerate, forms the low cliff at the mouth of the Otter. The 

 sandstone continues through Budleigh Salterton ; and in the high 

 cliff to the west, beneath it, comes the famous pebble-bed, and this 

 again overlies variegated marl, with hard nodules in the lower part, 

 Avhere the beds are less calcareous, although variegated and with 

 marly structure : these beds are interspersed with bands of sand- 

 stone, and towards Exmouth there is an alternation of marl and 

 sandstone. In this direction the beds are much disturbed by small 

 faults, which let down the marl at Exmouth : they are found to rest 

 upon breccia. 



Crossing over the mouth of the Ex, we come to Langstone Point, 

 and here we find rocks the relation of which to the marls and sand- 

 stones of Exmouth is clear, and the dip, which continues on the 

 whole uniform, would place them lower in the series : they form a 

 continuation of the breccia, which just appears at Exmouth. 



The Clift's between Langstone Point and Dawlish show sandstone 

 and breccia interstratified, sometimes the one predominates, some- 

 times the other. They are much faulted on a small scale.' Between 

 Dawlish and Teignmouth the dip continues uniform, and the cliffs 

 display a series of breccias with sandstone interstratified. Between. 

 Teignmouth and Babbacombe the beds undulate ; the lowest bed, 

 which might be termed a conglomerate, is conspicuous from the 

 fragments of limestone couitained in it.^ 



At Livermead and Eoundham Head, the beds appear similar to 

 those on the Dawlish coast, and the sections show (1) breccia, (2) 

 sandstone, and (3) breccia, with the conglomerate at base. 



There is thus a continuous series of rocks from the breccias and 

 sandstones of Dawlish and Teignmouth up in. to the Eh^tic beds of 

 Axmouth. The whole of these beds might be termed Keuper; but 

 owing to their great thickness, there is some justification in thinking 

 that the Muschelkalk might be represented,, as well as the Bunter, 

 and by sediments of a different lithological character.^ It seems 



of the red roeks between Taunton and Exeter, in which tract he has been enabled to 

 trace out, with marked persistence, the different divisions seen in the coast-section, 

 whilst I have been similarly successful in the smaller areas on which I have been 

 engaged. The details of this work will probably be published on some future occasion. 



1 See section by Godwin- Austen, Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd ser. vol. viii. pi. xlii. fig. 5. 



2 Here, it may be observed, we approach the Torquay limestone. 



3 See the writings of De la Beche, and Pengelly ; also Whitaker, op. cit. p. 157 ; 

 and H. B. W. Science Gossip, No. 115, July, 1874, p. 165, The thickness of the 

 strata has been estimated at from 1850 feet to four miles or more! Probably the 

 former estimate by De la Beche is nearest the truth. 



