1859.] 



WRIGHT INFERIOR OOLITE. 



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Notes on Dundry Hill. By R. Etiieridge, Esq., F.G.S. 



Dundry Hill, which rises to an elevation of 700 feet above the 

 level of the sea, is the most extreme -westerly ontlier of the Oolitic 

 hills, and is removed nine miles from that range. The smaller 

 outlying hills of Wilmington, Stantonbury, and Winsbury, to the 

 east, naturally connect Dundry with the main body of the Oolitic 

 Range, well exemplified at English Coomb, English Batch, and Cam- 

 merton ; also with the same extensive series at Doulting, Batcombe, 

 Burton, and Castle Carey, south of the Mendips, where the beds 

 much resemble those of Dundry ; and throughout the Yeovil district 

 generally these strata, both lithologically and palasontologically, are 

 still more like those of Dundry. 



Fig. 3. — Section across Dundry Hill, showing its Capping of Inferior 



Oolite. 

 N. s. 



* >j <i a q 6 



a. Inferior Oolite. 



b. Position of the Upper Lias. 



c. Lower Lias. 



rf. New Red Sandstone. 

 9> 1> ?• Quarries, 

 s. Springs. 



Fig. 4. — Section of Dundry Hill. 



7. Building-stone or Freestone beds. I'JI'cit. 



6. Fine- grained oolite. 1 feet. 



.'.. EUgatona Shells . B feet. 



I A i. Bnbblj limestones (Sli.lN . 



3. Ammonite-bed \ . , . 



i. Iron--.lu.t Shelly bed.. / 5,cct - 

 n. Dppei Liu Rand*, i Feet. 

 b. Lower Liu. 600 



Upper Lieu of Dundry.-' The beds forming thai portion of Imndry 

 Hill under consideration stand quite at the summit, constituting a 

 capping ui' oolitic limestone, and belonging to the middle and upper 



subdivisions of the Inferior Oolite. The] rest upon the upper beds 



of tlie Upper Lias, which are feebly represented here, tin ir oiil\ 



