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FOSSIL ESTHERItE. 



The section in the quarry exhibits the following series 













Feet. 



Inches. 



Surface-soil .... 











2 



6 





Marl 











2 



6 



7 



Esther ice- 



Sandstone 











Fish-teeth 



Marl 













5 

 6 



JEstherice. 



Sandstone 













Marl 













1 

 5 





Sandstone 













Osseous conglom 



srate, 



or 



Bon 



e-bed 





H 



Fish-teeth 



Marl and thin sandstone 







1 



6 



Estherice. 



Thick sandstone 



and 



marl. 



Thickness 









unknown . 





.... 











Plants (E 



Plants {Equisetites or Calamites). 



(Plant-remains occur also in the other beds.) 



A specimen from this quarry is figured in Plate II, figs. 1 — 3 ; see page 57. 



Mr. Symonds has also informed me by letter, dated February 2nd, 1861, that the 

 same little fossil shells were found at the eastern entrance of the Malvern tunnel,^ on the 

 Worcester and Hereford Railway, in grey shales associated with sandstones, and 

 belonging to the same series of beds as those of the Pendock section, namely, the 

 Upper Keuper Shales and Sandstones.^ JEstheria is here associated with teeth and 

 spines of Lophodus. The Keuper beds of this district east of the Malvern range were 

 described in 1848, in the ' Memoirs Geol. Survey,' vol. ii, part 1, pp. 119, &c., by Prof. 

 PhUhps, who found B. minuia at Hill End (see page 58). 



The following approximative section of the New Red Sandstone of Worcestershire has 

 been drawn up with the kind help of Mr. George E. Roberts, author of ' The Rocks of 

 Worcestershire,^ &c., &c. : 



( 1. 



Upper 

 Keuper. 



Upper Keuper (grey and red) Marls, with pseudomorphic salt-crystals. (Well 



seen at Crowle, 4 miles east of Worcester) 



Upper Keuper Sandstone with Estheria, Plant-remains, and Fish-remains. 



(Well seen at Pendock) 



( Upper variegated marls. Pscudomorphs of salt 

 and gypsum in the upper portions. (Wor- 

 cester Eaihvay-station) 



Lower red mai'ls ; sali-^erous. (Droitwich) 



3. Lower Keuper (red) Marls < 



Feet. 



40 



20 



1000 



' See the section published in the ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' vol. xvii, p. 151. 

 2 The order of the Triassic beds in this district are — 



1. Upper Keuper (grey and red) Marls (with pseudomorphic salt-crystals). 



2. Upper Keuper Sandstones (with Estheria and Fish-remains). 



3. LoNver Keuper (red) Marls. 



4. Lower Keuper Sandstone (equivalent to the "water-stones"). See 



Soc.,' vol. xvii, p. 152. 



5. Upper Red Sandstone (Bromesbevrow beds). 



6. Lower Red Sandstone (Stourport beds). 



Quart. Journ. Gcol. 



