500 K. TATE ON THE LIAS ABOUT RADSTOCK, 



Section, Old-Pit Quarry, Radstock. 



No. of bed. Description of strata. Thickness*. 



ft. in. 



1. Soil. 



2. («) Dense, black, splintering limestone, flaggy at top — Ammonites 



ibex, A. fimbriatus; yellow and ironshot below — A. latecosta- 



tus, Nautilus intermedins 3 



3. (a) Hard, yellowish grey, ironshot limestone, somewhat lumpy. 



A. Jamesoni 7 



4. (a) Soft, yellow, ironshot limestone 1 6 



5. (a) Brown, laminated, calcareous shale, full of Belemnites and 



Palliobranchs < , 8 



6 a. (b) Yellow ironshot limestone, "] , -, •, irk 



66. Id., with derived nodides, | oneblock 10 



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Section, Munger Quarry, near Paulton. 



Is distant about 2 miles from "Welton Station on the Bristol and 

 Radstock Railway, and may be reached by following the by-road on 

 the right on gaining the turnpike-road to Paulton. 



No. Description of strata. Thickness. 



ft. in. 

 .1. Soil. 



2. (a) Blue limestone, very hard and splintery, weathering grey and 



splitting into thin slabs. Ammonites ibex, A. fimbriatus, A. 

 latecostatus, many Belemnites, Cryptcsnia expansa, Phasianella 

 turbinaia, Rhynchonella furcillata 1 



3. (a) Hard, yellowish grey, ironshot limestone. A. ibex, Cryptcsnia 



expansa, Inoceramus ventricosus, Pecten lunularis 1 5 



4. (a) Similar to, but softer than No. 3, in two blocks. A. ibex, A. latecos- 



tatus, Nautilus intermedins, many Grasteropods, Ostrea semi- 

 plicata 2 



5. (a) Soft, yellow, ironshot limestone, bedding indistinct, rather lumpy, 



disposed on the quarry -face. Fossils exceedingly numerous and 

 easy of extraction : A. Jamesoni, A. brevispinus, A. polymor- 



phus, Pinna folium, &c 5 



Clay parting 



6. (b) Mixed bed ; matrix a yellow ironshot limestone, enclosing lumps 



of blue fine-grained limestone, and black irregular-shaped no- 

 dules of limestones derived from the Lower Lias 6 



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Section, Quarry on Clan Down near Radstock. 



1. Soil. 



2. (a) Bubbly limestone, displaced in situ \ No. 5 at f 3 



3. (a) Yellow ironshot limestone J Munger \ 2 



4. (a) Brownish clay 



5. (b) Yellowish grey ironshot limestone with black nodular ^ =No. 6 at 



lumps. A. Tylori, A. armatus, Trochus limbatus, j Munger, 

 Chemnitzia Blainvillei, Phasianella turbinata, Os- [and Nos. 

 trea obliquata, Rhynchonella variabilis, Bitrypa [6a and 66 7 



etalense, and other species of the higher beds | at Rad- 



6. (b) Blue limestone nodules J stock. 4 



