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Section of the hills above the village of Weean in the Pampicr valley. 



(See fig. 7.) 



The little hillocks above the villages of Weean and Kohew, are 

 separated from the main hill by a fault running W. — E. The beds 

 have moreover been folded on themselves and dip due W. (at Weean), 

 with an angle of 55°, whilst in the main hill the dip is to the N. E. 

 with an angle between 20° and 30°. This does not, however, prevent 

 the section of the little hill near Weean being a very good one for 

 study. We shall proceed from E. to W. 



1. Impure arenaceous limestone with fine spangles of mica. It is very 

 shaly in the centre of the bed and there very much decayed. It 

 changes its aspect repeatedly, adding here more sand and mica, there more 

 clay, 100 ft. 



2. Limestone, argillaceous ; in blue and yellow patches, 4 ft. 



3. Blue limestone, weathering brown and rough. It is arenaceous near 

 its upper part. It contains a very few fragments of fossils, 20 ft. 



4. Finely crystalline limestone ; nearly saccharine ; grey and 

 rough, 15 ft. 



5. Like 3, 8 ft. 



6. Limestone in blue and dirty yellow patches ; fossils much 

 broken, 12 ft. 



7. Flesh colour limestone ; hard, cherty and magnesian, 4 ft. 



8. Sandstone, micaceous, grey, calcareous and muddy. It decays faster 

 than the other beds and forms a depression on the hill-side, 2 ft. 



9. Limestone, patchy blue and brown. The hardest and roughest por- 

 tions are full of the debris of fossils, 25 ft. 



10. Sandstone, soft and wearing off" quickly, forming a depression 20 ft. 



11. Limestone, hard and grey ; it is brecciated and weathers 

 mammilated, 30 ft. 



12. Marly and sandy limestone, compact and hard, dark grey and weather- 

 ing into a granular surface, having the appearance of a sandstone. The debris 

 of fossils, 40 ft. 



13. Fawn-coloured limestone, very muddy ; it weathers ochrous and decays 

 fast, forming a depression on the hill side, 15 ft. 



14. A wall of very hard, crystalline, dark greyish-blue limestone with 



