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SANDS, MARLS, 



Upper 

 Galleky. 



Wall-case 41 . 



121. 



•Upper lias sand, slightly micaceous. 



rr\i , y o J ""vacuus, 



These sands wore until lately classed with the Infi 



Oolite. Now 



mor 



belong to the Lias group, the researches u. jur v^ 

 lialskf — t0 th ' C ° nClusi0n that thc <*** fossil 



Wr 



"""f "tc caioi iossiis are 

 Other geologists consider them beds of passaged 



of Blackford 



122— Upper 

 Gloucester sh ire. 



Map 



A. C. R, 



See 



Seizincote, Sto w-on- the- Wold, 



the Geology of the 



Memoir 



Country around Cheltenham ■ (sheet 44), by Edw^Hull' 



A.B., F.G.S., p. 29. 

 123 — Ui 



grains, underlying No. 60. 



Soft bed, with small green 



124 — Bed sand. 

 125. 



Shaftesburr/. Dors 



Map 



~-w, — — ^, ^vz-fcf, map io. 

 1 LJsed for makin g &™$—Hartwell. 



White sand. J Presented by Dr. Lee, F.R S 

 126. Variegated eocene sands (from the Middle Bag. 



shot Beds). 



127. — Marlstone, Upp 

 rock." 



'/ Wigh 



locally called "brown 



m It is very tough and durable, and has been used for build- 

 ing materials in many of the old churches in marlstone 

 districts ; also used for road metal. Very calcareous, hard 

 marly sandstone, with fossils. Rhynconella *«*~^~~ 

 Dursley, Gloucestershire. 



128. — Marlstone, Upp 



Terebratulce, Rhynconellce, and Belemnites.-Westcomb 



Somerset. 



e, 



129— Marlstone (another specimen). Softer, micaceous, 

 more sandy, and less calcareous. Contains fossils j Avicule, 



Cardinice. 



Farm 



1 30, 1 3 1 —Variegated marl ( Old Bed Marl). From the 

 lower part of the Old Red Sandstone series, where the beds 

 are chiefly marly. 130 is calcareous, forming an imperfect 

 tomstone.—Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire. 



132 — Variegated new red marl— Keuper. The red 

 marl countries are usually rich in fruit trees, cider, and 



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