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patches coloured brown. It weathers a dirty dark yellow, and becomes extremely 



rough and pitted by exposure. The organisms it contains are quite indistin- 



. , .. 3 ft. 



guishable, ' 



15. Fawn-coloured limestone like 13, 20 ft - 



16. A wall of very hard and compact limestone, grey and very arenaceous. 

 Where it is tolerably free of sand, it is bluer and contains the debris of fos- 



., 15 ft. 



sils, 



17. Sandstone, pale and calcareous, with bands of crystalline carbonate 

 of lime. It decays fast and forms a depression, 10 ft - 



18. A well marked wall of dark greyish-blue limestone, very rough and 

 pitted; it is arenaceous and in places cherty, 5 ft - 



19. Sandstone, micaceous, very false-bedded and very muddy. It efferves- 

 ces with acid along the scum-markings of the false bedding only, ... 15 ft. 



20. A very arenaceous and argillaceous limestone, extremely variable in 

 its appearance, but being generally of a pale clayey yellow. It is formed of 

 extremely thin layers of two distinct rocks, one being a yellow marl, and 

 the other a bluish grey arenaceous limestone, and these thin layers are also 

 very false-bedded. When we make a vertical section of a hand specimen, we 

 have a striped rock; and in a horizontal one, a succession of regularly round- 

 ed patches of bluish grey and sickly yellow. This alternation of very thin and 

 very false-bedded layers of rocks of two different colours is the cause of the 

 patchy appearance of many beds of the Weean group. But it is rarely 

 so well defined as in this present layer. In other places, the bluish limestone 

 forms irregularly-rounded balls or nodules cemented together by the yellow 

 marl, or the marl forms lumps imbedded in the limestone. Then again mi. 

 caceous sand forms, here and there, small false-bedded layers or bands in the 

 rock : and lenticular beds of a hard, brittle, pale yellowish, limestone, full of 

 the fragments of bivalves and of small crinoid stems, are also found. But all 

 these varieties of rock constitute a thick course of impure limestone, GO ft 



) 



Total ... 425 ft. 



We have now arrived at the little ravine which indicates the centre 

 of the fold of the beds ; on its other side the same beds are repeated in 

 an inversemanner as far as the bed 16 of the above section ; the re- 

 maining beds have been denuded from the western branch of the fold. 

 This fold deserves notice, as showing well how completely beds may- 

 be reversed in their position. It is probable that the beds nearest 

 to the ravine are the deepest or oldest, whilst the bed which we have 

 numbered No. 1, in the section, is the most superficial. If the hill 

 had been denuded to half its present height above the village, the beds 





