596 ME. K. D. VERNON" ON THE GEOLOGY AND [DoC. I912, 



This clay-pit has yielded a rich flora ; the plants are in an excel- 

 lent state of preservation, and are abundant both as individuals and 

 as species. The cones of Oalamites, rare species of Sphenopterids, 

 and macrospores of Lepidostrohus are all common in the lower of 

 the two plant-beds indicated in the section. 



Stockingford Clay-pit, Nuneaton. (PI. LX, fig. 1.) 



Eastern end. Western end. 



Thickness in ft. ins. ft. ins. 



Coal , about 5 



Measures about 10 



•Coal about 3 



Measures (with hard current-bedded sand- 

 stones) about 20 



Coal ., 1 9 



Measures abovit 6 



/'Coal 6 5 



I Fireclay 3 3 



<; Coal 10 16 



I Fireclay 6 3 



\Coal 16 16 



Sandstones, sandy shales with ' big balls 'of 



ironstone, and fireclay 15 12 



^coal 3 



'Coal with thin dirt-partings (and macrospores) 3 <( ,^®' ^ ^ 



Uoal 6 

 Fireclay floor of coal, containing a 6-inch 

 -nodular band of ganister, sandy shales, 



and fireclay 10 10 



/Coal 4 6 4 6 



J Sandy shales (with ' big balls ' of ironstone) 



"I and fireclay 22 4 



^Coal .' 10 2 



Sandy shales (with ' big balls ' of ironstone) 

 and fireclay ; 6 inches of black shales at 



the base. (Fossil trees occur.) 20 20 



doal (with spores) 3 3 



Fireclay 18 inches thick ; sandy shales and 



sandy fireclay with ' big balls ' of ironstone. . . 12 



Dip = 30° to 45° westwards. 



Within the basin, 2 miles away to the south-east, at a depth of 

 about 500 yards, the Newdigate Colliery near Bedworth yields the 

 following section of the Thick Coal, in which it will be seen that 

 the partings that separate the various seams in the above-mentioned 

 clay-pits have almost entirely thinned awaj^ : — 



