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can be examined with facility in a quarry immediately to the south, 

 and also in one at the head of Farmcombe, three-quarters of a mile 

 still farther south. 



That portion of the Doulting area which lies south of the 

 railway-line may be considered first. 



(B) Doulting-Bridge Quarry. 



The quarry close to the bridge over the cutting I have called the 

 ' Doulting-Bridge Quarry,' and the section observable there is as 

 follows: — 



Thickness in feet inches. 

 Fullers' Earth... a. Clay, pale-grey and yellow, with dark 

 patches; Terebratida globata, auctt., non 

 Sow., 1 Aulacothyris Mandelslohi (Oppel), 

 Acanthothyris midfordensis, sp. nov., Tere- 

 bratula doulting ensis, sp. nov., T. sphceroid- 

 alis, Sow. (immature), '{ Belemnites (Belem- 

 nopsis) parallelus, Phil., B. (B.) bessinus, 

 d'Orb., Berenicea cf. verrucosa (M.-Edw.), 

 Serpula plicatilis, Minister (in Goldfuss), 

 Ostrea Knorri, Voltz, Goniomya angidifcra 

 (Sow.), ? Alectryonia, sp. indet 4 



b. Limestone, white, rubbly, earthy, in several 

 beds mixed with clav; Bholadomya ovalis 



(Sow.) 1 2 



c. Clay, pale-yellow, with dark patches, and 

 a conglomeratic deposit at the base which 

 infills crevices in the bed below. At the 

 base is a layer of a reddish sandy material. 

 Some of the fossils of Bed a occur also in 

 thisbed 2 



I. Rubbly Beds. Limestone, pale-brown, rubbly, oolitic, mixed 

 with a little marly matter ; Ammonites 

 (Perisphinctes) cf. evolutoides, Siemiradzki, 

 Holectypus hemispheric us ( Agassiz), ? Lucina 

 clypeata, Witchell, ? ' Protocardia clypeata 

 (Witchell) internal cast, Isocardia minima, 

 Sow., Volsella [ — Modiola] gibbosa (Sow.), 

 Pleuromya Goldfussi (Lycett), . Corbicella 

 complanata, Lycett. Berenicea (Clypeus-Grrit 

 form), Bhynchonella hampenensis, S. S. 

 Buckmau, Terebratida globata, auctt., non 

 Sow., Acanthothyris spinosa (Schlotheim) 4 



Marly, sandy layer : to 6 inches 3 



II. Anabacia- a. Limestones, rubbly, yellowish-grey, shelly"^ 

 Limestones. at the base: 1 foot 7 inches 



b. Similar bed, but with fewer shell-fragments. 



c. Limestone, greyish-yellow, oolitic ; Tere- 

 bratida (probably ' T. globata '), Trigonia ; 

 Anabacia complanata common along a hori- 

 zon at 6 inches above the base : 3 feet 



d. Chocolate-coloured clay-parting : to 2 

 inches 



5-6 



III. Doulting a. Freestone, yellowish-grey, bored at the top 6 



Stone. b. Freestone, with two well-marked partings 



and a ' hollow bed ' at the base 10 



c. Freestones, massive, which have been cut 

 with the saw 







See p. 433. 



