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Section XXV. — Gliedworth Wood. (Cutting on the Kailway to 

 Cirencester. Erom Leckhampton, 6| miles E.S.E.; from Chel- 

 tenham, 8^ miles S.E.) 



ft. ins. ft. ins. 



Notgrove 1. White oolitic Freestone similar in 



Freestone. texture to the Upper and Lower 



Freestone. Abdomen of a large 



ammonite, a slightly carinate form, 



presumably Sonninia, 4 feet 6 



inches from the base 30 



Gryphite- 2. Greyish, somewhat marly stone, 



grit. with the GryphcBai very abundant . 4 

 Buckmani- 3. Grey sand-rock in several beds, with 

 grit. occasional Gryphm®, the upper 

 bed 1 foot 4 inches thick, rather 

 barren, but very considerably bored, 

 with even top — a noticeable datum- 

 line in the cutting 3 8 



4. Greyish, weathering light yellow, 



very sandy rock. Numerous shells 

 in section. Gryphtete in upper 

 part : abdomen of a large ammo- 

 nite showing 3 feet up 3 2 



5. Pinkish and bluish-grey clayey marl ; 



only 1 small Terebratnla Buckmani, 



juv. ?, found. Belemnites, scarce... 8 



6. Yellowish-brown, sandy stone 10 



7. Brown, earthy parting 1 



8. Bluish-grey, sandy stone 3 



9. Earthy parting 1 



10. Hard, grey, sandy stone with Ser- 



pulce. Sonninia found just below 

 this horizon — not in situ — may 



belong here 1 4 



10 I 



Lower Tri- 11. Ironshot marl and stone, rather 

 gonia-grit. crumbly : Ostrea cf. explanata, Tri- 



gonia, Myacites, etc 11 



12. Pinkish stone : Myacites, Cypricardia 



cordiformis (J), C'ucullcea 1 2 



13. Yellowish stone 1 3 



14. Marly parting more or less conspi- 



cuous : Aulacothyris Meriani 2 



15. Yellowish, slightly ironshot stone ... 1 5 



16. Yellowish, oolitic marl and some 



stone 5 



5 4 



HarfordSands 17. Bluish and yellowish clay with 

 equivalent. numerous fragments of shells: 



Ostrecs H 



Upper Free- 18. Yellowish and bluish oolitic lime- 

 stone, stone. 



With regard to this section I may remark that in my paper read to 

 the Cotteswold Nat. Eield-Club, although I correlated Beds 12-17 

 as Lower Trigonia-grit, I also stated that Bed 18 might be part of 

 it. Herein Mr. H. B. Woodward ' has very rightly corrected me— 

 it is certainly Upper Freestone. Also in that paper I overlooked 



1 ' Lower Oolitic Eocks of England,' Mem. Geol. Surv. 1894, p. 127. 



