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close at hand. The shales that succeed have a fairly high dip, and 

 are about 50 feet thick. These pass up into lavender-red shales, 

 and red grits, succeeded by about 70 feet of a hard close-grained 

 grit, with red spots and resembling in lithological characters the grits 



Pig. 4. — Section along line AB (see map^fig. l,p. 548) on the scale 

 of 25 inches to the mile. 



a = Limestone. 



h = Shales and thin limestones. 



c = Agglomerate and tuff. 



d = Shales, limestones, and tuffs. 

 e = Shales with coal. 

 F - Eed Rock Fault. 



of the Millstone Grit Series. The road-section shows more shales, 

 and then a hard calcareous mudstone. The succession above this is 

 best shown in the stream running alongside Limekiln Wood : — 



Feet Ins. 



Hardened mudstone 7 



Dark shales 200 



Grey shales, hardened in places 6 



Dark sandy shales, with numerous thin ferruginous bands ... 50 



Sandy shales 40 



Hardgrit 1 



„ 2 



Sandy shales 16 



Hard sandstone 1 6 



Sandy shales 45 



Thin flaggy sandstone 50 



The section in the main stream at this spot is hidden, but it is 

 continued in a tributary stream to the south, where deep narrow 

 gorges have been excavated : — 



Feet. 



Flags, as in the above section 50 



Gap 150 



Grit 12 



Shales bO 



Grit 8 



Shales 80 



Grit 9 



Gap 30 



Grit 5 



Shales 8 



Grit 9 



Gap 120 



Shales 30 



Grit 8 



Shales 35 



Grit with red spots 20 



