THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OP 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



POSTPONED PAPERS. 



On Abxoemal Coxditions of Secois^dart Deposits when connected 

 with the Somersetshire and South Wales Coal-Basen" ; and on 

 the age of the SuTTOif and SouTHERXDOWiir Series. By Charles 

 Moore, Esq., E.G.S. 



(Read March 20, 1867.*) 



[Plates XIV.-XYIL] 



CoivT:E]!fTS. 



I. Introduction. 

 II. The Mendip Hills. 



1. Old Red Sandstone. 



2. Carboniferous Limestone. 



3. Basaltic Dyke. 



4. Date of Upheaval. 



5. Denudation. 



6. System of Secondary veins. 



7. Age of the Conglomerates. 

 m. Stratified Rocks subsequent to the 



Mendip upheaval. 



1. The Trias. 

 a. South of the Mendips. 

 h. Within the Coal-Basin. 

 c. Batheaston Section. 



2. The Rh^tic Beds. 



a. Section of Keuper, Rhsetic, 



and Liassic Beds at Camel. 



b. Organic remains in the 



Rhastic White Lias. 



* For the other communications read at this Evening-meeting see p. 197. 

 VOL. XXIII. PART I. 2 I 



c. Insect and Crustacean Beds. 



d. Saurian and Ostrea-beds. 



e. Ammonites-planorbis Beds. 

 /. Beer-Crowcombe and Hatch 



Sections. 

 . Rhgetic and Liassic Beds within 

 the Coal-Basin. 



a. Section of Keuper, Rhastic, 

 Lower, Middle, and Upper 

 Lias, and Oolite at Camer- 

 ton. 



b. Section in Hunger Road 

 Quarry. 



, Relative thickness of Secondary 

 Beds South and North of 

 the Mendips. 



. Whatley Lias and Fontaine- 

 etoupe-Four. 



. Mells Middle Lias and Coal. 



