Vol. 68.] THE AEDEN SANDSTOJfE GEO UP OF WAEWICKSHIEE. 



The foregoing section may be summarized as follows : — 



Th ichiess in feet inches. 



Drift 34 6 



Keuper Marls 378 6 



Lower Keuper Sandstone 211 



Total 624 



275 



The boring is situated about a mile away from the Birmingham 

 fault, which throws down the Keuper Marls on the east of 

 Birmingham against the Lower Keuper Sandstone on the west. 

 The beds of red marl alternating with ' blue rock ' and ' blue marl ' 

 evidently correspond to the red marls with intercalations of green 

 and blue marl and bands of ' skerry ' (or ' rotch,' as it is locally 

 called by the brick-workers) to be seen in the brick-pits at Bordesley 

 about a mile away. 



(iii) Well and Boring at Moseley Road, Birmingham. 



Dug well to 174 feet; 15-inch boring to 48l| feet; 11-inch 

 boring to 550 feet; 10-inch to 570 feet. Subsequently bored to 

 727 feet. AVater-level with the boring at 570 feet was 54 feet from 

 the surface. Constant supply at 727 feet of about 8000 gallons 

 per hour. The boring was taiade in 1902, to supply the Birmingham 

 Corporation Baths at Moseley Eoad. It is situated about a mile 

 from the Birmingham fault above mentioned. 



Description of Beds. 



Thickness. 



Dug well in red marl 



Red inarl 



Red marl with gypsum 



Red and grey Keuper marls . . . 



Grey marlstone 



Fine red sandstone 



Red and grey marls 



Red sandy marls 



Grey sandstone 



So ft red plastic marl 



Red sandstone 



Soft plastic marl 



Pale-red sandstone 



Marl 



Pale-red sandstone 



Grey sandstone 



Red marl 



Red sandstone 



Red marl 



Red sandstone 



Loose red sandstone 



Total 



I)e2)th. 



Feet. 



174 



92 



34 



178 



6 

 12 

 16 



2 

 17 

 26 

 19 



8 

 14 



3 

 10 

 12 

 47 

 10 



6 



1 

 40 



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727 







Feet. 



174 



266 



300 



478 



484 



496 



512 



514 



531 



557 



576 



584 



598 



601 



611 



623 



670 



680 



686 



687 



727 



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