12 MR. L. RICHARDSON ON THE RH^TIC OE [Feb. T9II, 



the excursion by the Rev. H. H. Winwood, 1 who also revised the 

 subsequent ' report.' 2 



In 1905, in a footnote to my remarks on the Sully Beds at 

 Lavernock, I mentioned that I had identified the Sully Beds on 

 the Watchet coast 3 ; but it did not have the effect of directing the 

 attention of the authors of the Geological Survey Memoir on ' The 

 Geology of the Quantock Hills, & of Taunton & Bridgwater,' issued 

 some three years later, to the beds. In this memoir Bristow & 

 Etheridge's section at St. Audrie's Slip is summarized and repro- 

 duced with some slight additions and emendations, and the same 

 remark applies to Prof. Boyd Dawkins's section ' about a quarter of 

 a mile east of Watchet Harbour.' Except for a section * in a quarry 

 between Hill Farm and Beere Farm west of Combwich,' which is 

 diagrammatically represented, there is no additional information 

 requiring particular notice here. 4 



It is indeed strange that the fine sections in the foreshore and 

 cliffs at Blue Anchor and Lilstock (Little Stoke, auctt.) should have 

 received practically no attention ; but probably the cause lies in 

 the comparative inaccessibility of the neighbourhood. 



(ii) Stratigraphical Details. 



Coast from Blue Anchor to Watchet. — In this part of 

 the area the Rhsetic deposits have been bent into a slight anticline, 

 and have been let down between two faults : one inshore, and the 

 other far out in the foreshore. 



The photograph reproduced in PI. I will give an idea of this 

 slight anticlinal arrangement of the beds. The Rhsetic deposits, 

 high up in the cliff, were, of course, once continuous over the axis 

 of the anticline ; but, while they have been removed therefrom, 

 they may be seen again in the foreshore dipping Channel wards — 

 the hard beds giving rise to prominent ledges (PI. II). 



The junction of the Red with the Tea-green and Grey Marls is 

 seen in the interesting 'Warren Farm Section' in Cleeve Bay, a 

 short distance eastwards along the coast from Blue Anchor Point. 

 Fig. 1 (p. 13) shows the position of this section, and PI. IV makes 

 clear the arrangement of the beds. In this section, Beds 22 a to 

 12 are to be seen — the actual junction of the Tea-green and Grey 

 Marls with the Red being displayed to the right of the observer, 

 when he stands facing the section depicted in PI. IV. 



Returning to Blue Anchor Point (PI. I), the two prominent 

 bands of marlstone near the base constitute Bed 20 of the record on 

 p. 20. In PI. Ill, fig. 2, is reproduced a photograph of the Keuper 

 Marls, with their bands and veins of gypsum, from this Bed 20 up 

 to Bed 11 ; while descriptive details will be found on pp. 1 9-20. 



The uppermost beds of the Keuper, the Sully Beds, and the lower 

 portion of the Westbury Beds are very difficult of access at Blue 

 Anchor Point. Fortunately, however, several other sections are 

 available. 



1 Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xiv (1896) pp. 378-88. 2 ibid. pp. 433-36. 



3 Q, J. G. S. vol. lxi (1905) p. 389. 4 Op. cit. Mem. Geol. Surv. pp. 05-71. 



