﻿VICARY 
  BITDLEIOU 
  SALTERTON 
  

  

  283 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  Pebble- 
  bed 
  of 
  Budleigh 
  Salterton. 
  By 
  W. 
  Vicary, 
  Esq., 
  

   Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  With 
  a 
  Note 
  on 
  the 
  Fossils; 
  by 
  J. 
  W. 
  Salter, 
  

   F.U.S., 
  A.L.S. 
  

  

  (Read 
  December 
  16, 
  1863 
  *). 
  

  

  [Plates 
  XV.-XVII.] 
  

  

  In 
  bringing 
  the 
  fossils 
  figured 
  in 
  Plates 
  XV.-XVII. 
  under 
  the 
  notice 
  

   of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society, 
  I 
  beg 
  to 
  offer 
  a 
  few 
  remarks 
  on 
  the 
  locality 
  

   in 
  which 
  they 
  Avere 
  found, 
  and 
  on 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  other 
  circumstances 
  

   connected 
  with 
  them. 
  

  

  If 
  we 
  look 
  at 
  a 
  geological 
  map 
  of 
  Devon, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  seen 
  that 
  from 
  

   Petit 
  Tor, 
  near 
  Babbacombe 
  Bay, 
  to 
  a 
  little 
  way 
  beyond 
  Sidmouth, 
  

   the 
  coast 
  exhibits 
  cliffs 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Red 
  Sandstone 
  formation. 
  

   These 
  rocks 
  present 
  us 
  with 
  variously 
  modified 
  features. 
  At 
  about 
  

   a 
  quarter 
  of 
  a 
  mile 
  west 
  of 
  Budleigh 
  Salterton, 
  and 
  for 
  about 
  a 
  mile 
  

   and 
  a 
  half 
  further 
  on 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  direction, 
  is 
  a 
  bed 
  containing 
  

   pebbles 
  in 
  large 
  quantities, 
  varying 
  from 
  a 
  small 
  size 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  

   man's 
  head. 
  These 
  are 
  generally 
  of 
  a 
  flattened-oval 
  form, 
  are 
  com- 
  

   pletely 
  free 
  from 
  angularity, 
  and 
  are 
  known 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  

   as 
  Budleigh 
  pebbles 
  or 
  " 
  popples." 
  

  

  The 
  figures 
  illustrating 
  this 
  paper 
  represent 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  cliff 
  

   where 
  this 
  pebble-bed 
  is 
  found, 
  and 
  which 
  furnishes 
  the 
  pebbles 
  in 
  

   which 
  the 
  fossils 
  are 
  imbedded. 
  

  

  The 
  coast 
  here 
  runs 
  in 
  a 
  direction 
  nearly 
  east 
  and 
  west, 
  and 
  it 
  

   will 
  be 
  observed 
  that 
  the 
  dip 
  of 
  the 
  bed 
  is 
  to 
  the 
  east. 
  The 
  diagram 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1, 
  

  

  View 
  of 
  the 
  Cliff, 
  looking 
  Eastward. 
  

  

  Red 
  marl 
  

  

  also 
  shows 
  that 
  as 
  the 
  pebble-bed 
  rises 
  up 
  from 
  its 
  first 
  appearance 
  

   at 
  the 
  beach 
  to 
  its 
  highest 
  level, 
  the 
  regularity 
  of 
  the 
  rise 
  is 
  disturbed 
  

   by 
  the 
  interference 
  of 
  several 
  small 
  faults. 
  The 
  greatest 
  thickness 
  

   of 
  the 
  bed 
  is 
  probably 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  a 
  hundred 
  feet. 
  The 
  pebbles 
  

   and 
  sand 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  composed 
  cohere 
  so 
  slightly 
  that 
  any 
  portion 
  

  

  * 
  For 
  the 
  other 
  communications 
  read 
  at 
  this 
  Evening-meeting, 
  see 
  p. 
  116. 
  

  

  