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Fig. 3. — Geological sJcetch-maj:) of the neigJihourhood of 

 DanieVs Wood and Middlemill. 



Wenlock 



[Probable lines of outcrop are indicated by broken lines. The 

 sign + indicates that the deposit is not Tisible at the 

 surface, but was proved by trenching.] 



paper a list of fossils 

 is given (p. 274), ob- 

 tained from blocks 

 in the bed of this 

 stream, but the Llan- 

 dovery had not been 

 met with in place, 

 the exposures being 

 very bad and for- 

 merly almost inac- 

 cessible owing to 

 the dense tangle of 

 brambles cumbering 

 the bed of the stream. 

 Lord Ducie, how- 

 ever, most kindly 

 had the vegetation 

 cleared away, and 

 the section can now 

 be adequately ex- 

 amined. It includes 

 both Wenlock and 

 Llandovery strata as 

 well as trap, and is 

 described in some 

 detail in the sequel. 

 We may here, how- 

 ever, mention that 

 the Llandovery, 

 which weathers into a 

 stiff clay with bands 

 of grit and decalci- 

 fied sandy limestone, 

 proves to dip in a 

 south-easterly direc- 

 tion and to overlie 

 the trap regularly. 

 Though so different 

 lithologically, it is 

 therefore on the 

 horizon of the cal- 

 careous ash of Char- 

 field Green. Mr. J. 

 Harle informs us 

 that the two fields 

 between Daniel's 

 Wood and the bend 

 of the road south- 

 east of Crockley's 

 Farm are formed 



