486 H. J. EHUNSON ON THE RANGE OF THE 
junction of the Upper with the Middle Lias, followed by the 
Lower Lias clays, the aggregate thickness of which was 581 feet. 
The White Lias and Rhetic were here present in the following 
order :— 
ft. ine OohG.. ea 
No. of bed. 581 O 
1. Hard white limestone with pyrites ...............00 a) 
2. Sandy vein, with Pecten, Ostrea, reptilian bone ... O 6 
3. Dense hard white limestone..............--:-e-tenccesen 0 9 
4, Sandstone, with limestone bands, Pecten, Ostrea... 2 3 
Dy Whitelcrystalline limestomer a... sce s-eeeeee ee eae 26 
6. White limestone with dark streaks .................. 0 6 
7. Dense concretionary limestone ...........seseeeseeeeee 6 6 595 0 
8. -Greensshale sce enateetesseta von atetee cre mea at eaeenee 7 O 
Ou Grey Shale .< sleusnscnceauaccosenne meee ea Oro URE eeee 0 6 
10. Brown shale with green bands ...............0...-+0 4 6 
fil Soft@reen marly-shaletecw-ca-escncoe st accebace succes 4 0 
12. Hard green marl, false-bedding very strongly 
MAEKE > piecona cae oos ete eR Ee ate es See Ee eee 
13. Black shales, with limestone bands and pyritous 
MOGUIES 2.220%. sO er eeere satan. nomca emer meas « 3 ON GL7ie 
Among the fossils were Crustacea, Terquemia arietis, Avicula 
contorta, Cardium rheticum, Pecten valoniensis, Plewrophorus, 
Acrodus minimus, Gyrolepis tenwistriatus, Saurichthys acuminatus, 
S. apicalis, Pterodactylus (bone). 
The black shales rested upon the slightly eroded surface of a bed 
of grey marl with layers of coarse gritty sandstone, followed by 
the cream-coloured marls, variegated sandstones, and marls of the 
Trias. 
ft: “mt oft mae 
No, of bed. 617 0 
14. Grey marl, with bands of gritty sandstone ......... 3 0 
15. Cream-coloured conchoidal marl ............seeeeee-- 3 0 
16. Red and green mottled marls............<...s2seeseeoee 3. 0 
AG ee dimmer LSS O0s is soh seme eeneet edteeeaaucen eaetemeueee 4 0 
1S: $Brownrsandstonelassitsiac stones cmeccceatetstaemetean eet 4 0 
UD) pcPre digmman | a eeaaiee | ae menensc ca cee ea, secee eeee eens 3. 0 
AM. AB ronvitay samt bys. Peale. sets ocaley se tno ear amsias See 0 6 
21. Band of hard sandy limestone .................-.0.00 1 0 
22. Red and green mottled sandstones ............+2+00- 2 6 
23. Green and yellow sandstone ..............sseeeereeeeee 2 0 658 O 
24, Hard white sandstone with pyrites .................- 1 0 
25. Fine-grained green sandstone...............eeseeeeeeeee 0 6 
26. Green sandstone (strong odour of sulphuretted 
hydrogen when brokemopen)\2...-.0-.s-cnesce- eee: 6 
27. Green sandstone (large quantity of pyrites) ......... 10 
28. Green sandstone (free from pyrites) ...........s.000-- 5 0 666 0 
29; Nellow sandy. marl... 044. 5..2escsck or ids ocnaetene eee 1 O 
30; (Grey Sandstone... a ccccacn- ace ausencnece caccaren eee meee 1 O 
31. Light-coloured sandstone, with marly bands ...... 4 0 672 0 
32. Red marl 1590 
30. Yellowish-green sandy marls .......-...:..-sevesss-o0ss 2 0 
34. Red Marl’, .apceseac on oebeeh aude sans to ae decom 1. 6 (Giogae 
At 6764 feet Carboniferous fossils were discovered in a bed of 
