170 MR. A. RENDLE SHORT ON EHJETIC [May I904, 



14. A Description of some Bh.etic Sections in the Bristol District, 

 with Considerations on the Mode of Deposition of the Uitjstic 

 Series. By A. Bendle Short, Esq., B.Sc, M.B., B.S. (Com- 

 municated by Prof. S. H. Reynolds, M.A., F.G.S. Bead 

 December 16th, 1903.) 



Contents. 



Page 



I. Introduction 170 



II. Description of four new Rhnetic Exposures 1 70 



(A) Redland. Bristol. 



(B) Stoke Gifford. 



(C) Gotham Road, Bristol. 



(D) Aust. 



III. The Physical Geography of the Rhsetic Period 170 



IV. The Stratigraphy of the Rbaetic Series 1S7 



V. Summary 189 



VI. Bibliography 190 



I. Introduction. 



This paper is a condensation of a longer memoir, the parts omitted 

 being chiefly lists of fossils and remarks on the same. It embodies 

 the results of some live years' study of the Bluetic Series, chiefly in 

 the Bristol district, made easier by the fact that I reside in that 



district. ' 



II. Description of four new IIhjetic Exposures. 



(A) Redland, Bristol. 



A number of exposures have been recently made here in cutting 

 a new road. One of these has already been briefly dealt with 

 in a local memoir by Mr. W. H. "VYickes (46), 1 and again by 

 Mr. Parsons (47). I give, witli slight modifications, Mr. Wickes's 

 classification of the beds, and his list of fossils, enumerating those 

 that I have found in addition. The lettering corresponds to that 

 used by the late Edward Wilson for the Pylle-Hill section (36). 

 The fossils are not obtained solely from the exposure originally 

 described, but from the newer exposures as "well. It is imprac- 

 ticable to separate them, as the material thrown out has been 

 mixed. 



Feet inches. 

 S. Five beds of hard, blue, 2 8 a. (In the upper two bands.) 



shelly limestone, with Ammonites torus. {Am. plauorbis 



brown shaly partings. found, but not in place.) 



b. | In the lower bands.) 



I'teiiromya Croiccombciu, Modiola 

 minima, Cardium rkteticum, Pecten 

 Pollux, Monotis decussata (rare). 



1 Numerals in parentheses tlnousrhout this paper refer to the Bibliography 

 § VI, p. 190. 



