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  THE 
  BAJOCIAN 
  OE 
  THE 
  CLEEVE 
  HILL 
  PLATEAU. 
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  37. 
  Deposits 
  of 
  the 
  Bajocian 
  Age 
  in 
  the 
  Northeen 
  Cotteswolds 
  : 
  

   The 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  Plateau. 
  By 
  S. 
  S. 
  Buckman, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  

   (Eead 
  June 
  23rd, 
  1897.) 
  

  

  [Plate 
  XLVI— 
  Map.] 
  

  

  Contents. 
  

  

  Page 
  

  

  I. 
  Introduction 
  607 
  

  

  II. 
  Sections 
  of 
  the 
  Deposits 
  608 
  

  

  1. 
  Whittington. 
  

  

  2. 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  (generalized). 
  

  

  III. 
  Notes 
  concerning 
  the 
  various 
  Deposits 
  610 
  

  

  IV. 
  The 
  Sequence 
  of 
  Cotteswold 
  ' 
  Inferior 
  Oolite' 
  Rocks 
  615 
  

  

  V. 
  Correlation 
  of 
  the 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  Deposits 
  with 
  those 
  of 
  other 
  

  

  Localities 
  617 
  

  

  VI. 
  The 
  Structure 
  of 
  Part 
  of 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  617 
  

  

  VII. 
  The 
  Bajocian 
  Denudation 
  620 
  

  

  VIII. 
  Denudation 
  and 
  Overlap 
  623 
  

  

  IX. 
  A 
  Water-retaining 
  Bed 
  624 
  

  

  X. 
  Ancient 
  Geography 
  of 
  the 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  Plateau 
  625 
  

  

  XI. 
  Map 
  of 
  the 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  Plateau 
  627 
  

  

  XII. 
  Conclusion 
  and 
  Summary 
  627 
  

  

  I. 
  Introduction. 
  

  

  The 
  present 
  essay 
  is 
  in 
  continuation 
  of 
  a 
  former 
  paper 
  which 
  

   described 
  deposits 
  of 
  similar 
  date 
  in 
  the 
  Mid-Cotteswolds. 
  1 
  The 
  

   district 
  now 
  under 
  discussion 
  consists 
  of 
  an 
  outlying 
  isolated 
  

   plateau, 
  cut 
  off 
  from 
  the 
  main 
  mass 
  of 
  the 
  Cotteswolds 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  

   by 
  the 
  deep 
  valley 
  at 
  Sevenhampton, 
  and 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  

   Mid-Cotteswolds 
  by 
  the 
  Vale 
  of 
  Whittington. 
  2 
  The 
  best-known 
  

   portion 
  of 
  this 
  plateau 
  is 
  called 
  Cleeve 
  Cloud 
  or 
  Cleeve 
  Hill; 
  

   other 
  portions 
  include 
  the 
  hills 
  above 
  Whittington 
  and 
  Hewlett's 
  

   Hill. 
  For 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  paper 
  the 
  whole 
  will 
  be 
  

   named 
  the 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  plateau. 
  

  

  The 
  literature 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  district 
  is 
  not 
  extensive. 
  The 
  

   latest 
  detailed 
  section 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  Cleeve 
  Hill 
  given 
  by 
  Wright. 
  3 
  As, 
  

   however, 
  the 
  sequence 
  of 
  the 
  strata 
  set 
  forth 
  by 
  that 
  author 
  differs 
  

   so 
  considerably 
  from 
  that 
  which 
  will 
  be 
  described 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  

   communication, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  thought 
  desirable 
  to 
  discuss 
  his 
  section 
  in 
  

   detail, 
  or 
  to 
  combat 
  his 
  views. 
  An 
  almost 
  entirely 
  new 
  reading 
  

   will 
  be 
  presented 
  now. 
  

  

  One 
  more 
  point 
  may 
  be 
  referred 
  to. 
  A 
  postscript 
  to 
  my 
  

   communication 
  on 
  the 
  « 
  Mid-Cotteswolds 
  ' 
  (p. 
  461) 
  first 
  gave 
  a 
  short 
  

   summary 
  of 
  the 
  sequence 
  found 
  at 
  Cleeve 
  Hill. 
  Further 
  researches 
  

   fully 
  tended 
  to 
  bear 
  out 
  this 
  sequence 
  ; 
  and 
  then, 
  within 
  the 
  last 
  

  

  1 
  ' 
  The 
  Bajocian 
  of 
  the 
  Mid-Cotteswolds,' 
  Quart. 
  Journ. 
  Geol. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  li. 
  

   (1895) 
  p. 
  388. 
  Further 
  references 
  will 
  be 
  given 
  simply 
  as 
  ' 
  Mid-Cotteswolds.' 
  

  

  2 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  lateral 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Coin, 
  made 
  by 
  a 
  former 
  tributary 
  of 
  that 
  

   river. 
  Its 
  western 
  end 
  is 
  now 
  deepened 
  to 
  form 
  the 
  valley 
  of 
  the 
  Cbelt. 
  

  

  3 
  ■ 
  Monograph 
  of 
  the 
  Lias 
  Ammonites,' 
  p. 
  155 
  (Paheont. 
  Soc. 
  1879). 
  

  

  