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The olive shales are also very fossiliferoiis, and contain numerous 



remains of Eurypteridse, most of which are, however, very frag- 



™ ^ _ ; . mentary, as the beds 



tig. /.— Vertical section in the Temeside are brittle and have 



Group at Tin-Mill Race, on the scale an objectionable habit 



of 6 feet to the inch. of cmm bling to pieces 



when worked. At the 

 top of the olive shales 

 gritty bands begin to 

 come in, and a well- 

 defined one crowded 

 with carbonaceous re- 

 mains is recognizable 

 as the ' Fragment - 

 Bed'; while imme- 

 diately above it come 

 the massive purple- 

 red sandstones, which 

 we regard as belong- 

 ing to the Old Red 

 Sandstone. 



F/f 



F6 <C 



Massive 

 purple-red 

 sandstones. 



4 Fragment -Bed.' 

 Grey micaceous grit. 



Olive shales, with Eurypterid- 



remains. 

 Grit-band. 

 Olive shales, -with Eurypterid- 



remains. 



Grit-band. 



Olive shales, 

 with Eurypterid-remains 

 and Lingula cornea. 



The Temeside Shales 

 are also exposed at 

 three other places in 

 the inlier ; on the 

 north side at the 

 Spring, where the 

 rubbly shales alone 

 are visible, and on 

 the south side in the 

 small stream near 

 Forge Bridge, and 

 west of the bridge 

 below the track lead- 

 ing to Downton - 

 Castle Bridge. In the 

 stream the following 

 beds were seen : — 



The variegated rub- 

 bly beds (F a) are ex- 

 posed in the stream- 

 bed for a short dis- 

 tance, and terminate 

 at a small waterfall 

 which marks the 

 position of the grey 

 micaceous grit (F b). The lowest olive shales are not seen, but 

 the highest beds may be detected below the massive red sandstones, 

 the position of which is indicated by another waterfall. All the 

 beds dip a little east of south at 25°. 



Temeside Bone-Bed. 

 Olive shales. 



liubbly olive shales, with large 

 Lingula cornea. 



Grey micaceous grit. 



Variegated rubbly 

 shales and marls, 

 with Lingula cornea. 



Sandy bed, full of broken 

 [Lingula and fish-spines 



Eed shale-band. 



Variegated 

 rubbly shales. 



(Water-level.) 



