360 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIPTY. [ Mar. 9, 
Area I. KinesrHorrr. 
This area lies immediately north of Northampton. Its north- 
western portion consists of high ground capped with the White 
Limestone of the Great Oolite (A) overlain by a thin covering of 
older Post-Glacial or Glacial Gravel. This limestone is disposed in 
horizontal strata, and occupies an area of elongated irregular form, 
extending for about two miles, in a south-easterly direction nearly 
to Weston Favel, with an average width of about half a mile. 
North of a road running easterly towards Moulton are large 
pits in this limestone (marked «a on the map), presenting a section 
of about 25 feet. At the third of a mile south-east of these is 
another pit (6), the section of which, partly by the thinning of the 
limestone, and partly from denudation, has diminished to about 16 
feet; and at the further distance of a mile in the same direction 
(near Buttock’s Booth) is a third pit (¢), in which the section is 
only about five feet. 
The section of the pits marked a is as follows. 
Section of Great Oolite Limestone at Kingsthorpe— 
guing Quarrymen’s Terms. 
ft. in. ft. in. 
1. Soft marly bed, with fragmentary masses of limestone, and 
fossils—Gryphead, Modiola, SC. ......ccecsceceencncreneeeeeneees nil to 4 0 
2. Marly limestone, sometimes soft, occasionally hard—a few 
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3. “ Dirt Bed’”’—earthy shale bed, in thin layers, containing 
flattened bivalves, the tests preserved ...........0-:se-0secseeeee 10 to 16 
4. “Top Soft Bed ”—soft, marly limestone, containing large 
Pholadomye, Homomya, Myacites, Ostrea subrugulosa, 
INGEUCO ME LY DEUS NOC Resa. Sue eh Cunt eee eee Maco aeeceee 10 tol 6 
5. ‘ Pendle ’’—two marly limestone beds, each from 12 to 18 
inches in thickness, the upper softer and more fossiliferous 
thanjtheul ower versie ee. mien kuti aucysei aan Antec clee'soai sa: 20 to 30 
6. Cream-coloured soft clay-like seam, with fossils ............... 3to 6 
7. “ Paying ”— upper bed—hard, sometimes crystalline lime- 
stone, occasionally with blue heart, very full of fossils— 
Alaria, Nerinea, Astarte elegans, Trigonia, Acrosalenia, 
Clypeus, palatal teeth of fish, &¢.  .........ceceecceeeeeeeee sees 20 to 26 
8. “ Paving”’—lower bed—similar to the last, but not so fossi- 
MIPEROUS ate eases tesa deh o hk se eae ape nee tee A ae 20 to 23 
The “ Paving”’-beds stone is sawn up and faced, for floors, 
steps, window-sills, chimney-pieces, &c. 
9. “Top Jubs”’—soft marly stone, full of Pholadomya, Mo- 
diola, Natica, large Nautilus, large Clypeus, &c., with a 
zone at bottom, softer, but containing the same fossils...... 2 6 to 3 
10. “Bottom Jubs ”—stone similar to the last, but softer......... 2 0 to 2 
11. Lower zone of the “ Bottom Jubs’’—more compact lime- 
stone, rather coarsely oolitic in places, containing, among 
other fossils, Nautilus Baberi, N. subtruncatus, and nume- 
rous Ostrea Sowerbyi, the tests of which are perfect in the 
soft) material of the bedding St oyieespssersen ssecerdemantaaee 10to13 
12. “ Bottom Soft Bed”—soft marly bed, with numerous Rhyn- 
chonella concinna, Modiola imbricata, &C. ...1.-....e.c0e0 10to 16 
The last bed is not well seen in. the pits a. 
