﻿BEER 
  HEAD 
  AND 
  THE 
  ADJACENT 
  CLIFF-SECTIONS. 
  

  

  393 
  

  

  Table 
  II. 
  — 
  Illustrating 
  the 
  Succession 
  of 
  the 
  Cretaceous 
  Strata 
  near 
  

   Beer 
  Head, 
  Devon. 
  

  

  Divisions. 
  

  

  03 
  

  

  6 
  I 
  

  

  Minor 
  Divisions. 
  

  

  White 
  chalk, 
  with 
  flints 
  

  

  Chalk, 
  without 
  flints 
  . 
  

  

  Hard 
  chalk, 
  with 
  flints 
  in 
  

   layers. 
  

  

  Marly 
  chalk. 
  Flints 
  finger- 
  

   like, 
  dispersed. 
  

  

  Nodular 
  sandy 
  chalk, 
  without 
  

   flints 
  ; 
  semicrystalline. 
  

  

  Cream-coloured 
  sandy 
  chalk 
  ; 
  

   semicry 
  stalline 
  . 
  

  

  Hard 
  nodular 
  chalk, 
  with 
  

   quartz 
  grains. 
  

  

  Greyish 
  nodular 
  chalk, 
  with 
  

   quartz 
  grains, 
  green 
  grains, 
  

   and 
  Phosphatic 
  Nodules. 
  

  

  a 
  S 
  

  

  &h 
  

  

  Zones 
  of 
  Fossils. 
  

  

  Micraster 
  cor-anguinum. 
  

  

  Terebratula 
  carnea. 
  

   Inoceramus 
  Cuvieri. 
  

   Terebratula 
  seiniglobosa. 
  

   Inoceramus 
  Brongniarti. 
  

   Holaster 
  planus. 
  

   Inoceramus 
  mytiloides. 
  

   Micraster 
  cor-bovis. 
  

  

  Rhynchonella 
  Cuvieri. 
  

   Inoceramus 
  mytiloides. 
  

  

  Discoidea 
  subuculus. 
  

  

  Ammonites 
  Mantelli. 
  

   Discoidea 
  cylindrica. 
  

   Rhynchonella 
  Mantelliana. 
  

  

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  <D 
  

   03 
  ,Q 
  

  

  .2 
  "8 
  

  

  .-a 
  a 
  

  

  i'i 
  

  

  12. 
  

  

  11. 
  

  

  10. 
  

  

  Compact 
  nodular 
  bed, 
  with 
  

   green 
  grains 
  and 
  quartz 
  

   grains 
  in 
  a 
  chalky 
  paste. 
  

  

  Yellowish 
  quartzose 
  grit 
  in 
  a 
  

   chalky 
  paste. 
  

  

  Rubbly, 
  yellowish, 
  quartzose 
  

   grit 
  in 
  a 
  chalky 
  paste. 
  

  

  Ammonites 
  rhotomagensis. 
  

   Scaphites 
  sequalis. 
  

   Holaster 
  subglobosus. 
  

   Catopygus 
  carinatus. 
  

   Rhynchonella 
  dimidiata. 
  

   Terebratula 
  pectita. 
  

   Exogyra 
  columba 
  (small 
  var.) 
  

   Siphouia. 
  

  

  Nautilus 
  lsevigatu3. 
  

   Discoidea 
  subuculus. 
  

  

  5 
  

  

  r 
  

  

  03 
  oa 
  

   IS 
  13 
  

  

  15 
  5 
  

  

  03 
  rrt 
  

  

  o 
  

  

  Buff-coloured 
  sandstone 
  and 
  

   grit-beds, 
  with 
  fine 
  green 
  

   grains. 
  

  

  Buff-coloured 
  sands 
  

  

  H 
  

  

  Shingle 
  -bed 
  of 
  sandstone- 
  

   pebbles. 
  

  

  Light- 
  coloured 
  sand 
  and 
  

   sandstone. 
  

  

  Chert-beds, 
  in 
  light-coloured 
  

   sand. 
  

  

  Yellowish 
  marly 
  sands, 
  with 
  

   irregular 
  concretions. 
  

  

  Greyish 
  marly 
  sand, 
  with 
  

   nodular 
  concretions. 
  

  

  Sands, 
  with 
  green 
  earth 
  (ar- 
  

   gillaceous). 
  

  

  Greenish-grey 
  sands 
  and 
  grit- 
  

   bed. 
  

  

  Orbitolina 
  concava. 
  

   Exogyra 
  digitata, 
  Soio. 
  

  

  Exogyra 
  digitata, 
  Sow. 
  

  

  Exogyra 
  columba. 
  

   Janira 
  quadricostata. 
  

   Exogyra 
  columba. 
  

   Janira 
  quadricostata. 
  

   Pecten 
  orbicularis. 
  

   Exogyra 
  conica. 
  

  

  „ 
  laevigata. 
  

   Blackdown 
  fauna. 
  

   Inoceramus 
  sulcatus, 
  Sow. 
  

   Exogyra 
  conica 
  (small 
  var.). 
  

  

  Q. 
  J. 
  G. 
  S. 
  No. 
  120. 
  

  

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