PERMIAN BEDS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE. 



35 



yds. ft. 



Brought forward 257 o 



Floorclay i i 



Grey metal o 1 



Blue metal and grey 3 o 



Dark metal o o 



Grrey metal o 2 



Red and grey metal o 2 



Bedrock 2 1 



Red and grey rock i i 



Grey rock, with small bands of red 2 o 



Hard rock o i 



Grey soapstone o o 



Rock bind o o 



Dark soapstone i o 



Grey soapstone o i 



Rock bind o o 



Grey soapstone o i 



Black stone containing a small seam of 



coal o o 



Grey soapstone o i 



Rock bind o o 



Grey soapstone o 2 



Darker soapstone o 2 



Black stone o o 



Floorclay i i 



Grey soapstone 3 i 



Rock bind o o 



Grey metal i o 



Very hard rock (light colour) i o 



Grey metal o 2 



Fine clay o o 



Grey soapstone, with thin bands of light- 

 coloured rock 2 2 



Reddish metal o i 



Light-coloured metal o o 



in, 

 2 



TO 



4 

 II 



5 

 5 

 o 

 2 

 3 



9 

 I 



4 

 I 

 1 

 II 

 2 

 5 



I 



II 



6 



2 



5 



II 



2 



4 



4 



II 



4 



Coal-mea- 

 sures. 



4 



4 



II 



; 



Total. 



... 287 I 5 

 The trias in this section had nearly all outcropped ; but 

 the permian marls^ containing numerous beds of limestone 

 and fine beds of white granular gypsum^ were 245 feet in 

 thickness, the greatest thickness which they have yet been 

 found in East Lancashire. In the late Mr. Bradbury's 

 section, given by me in my former paper *, a query was 

 * Twelfth volume (Second Series) of the Memoirs of the Society, p. 222. 



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