IN THE ANGLO-PARIS BASIN 



L 1 1 h olog y 



Dense seam of phosphatic nodules and fossils in she l l y q rgy clay. 



(vl)Oark grey shelly ekiy with partly phosphatised and partly pyritised fossils. 



(v) Mottled Bed. Light fawn grey clay with numerous burrows of dark grey clayV 

 A shell seam with scattered phosphatic nodules marks the base. Scattered 

 small phos phatic nodules occu r at to p. 



(iv)Dark grey shelly clay. 



(iii)Shell sean 



ith scattered small phosphatic nodules. 



(il) Dark grey shelly clay, a little burrowed, with a (ew scattered small 

 phosphatic nodules and some partly phosphatised fossils. 



(i) Bed of large Irregular phosphatic nodules and occasional part-phosphatisea> a 

 in dark grey clay. s 



Fawn grey clay with shell seams and partly phosphatised fossils more 

 ferruginous and marly at the base which is marked by lenticular developments 

 of ferruginous martstone. 



(vi)Lightcr grey clay than below, and more marly, passing in the top few inches 

 into Division 4. 



(v)lrregular lino of phosphatic nodules in dark grey clay. 



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(iv)Dark grey shelly clay. 



UN) Seam of scattered phosphatised ammonite body chambers. 



(ii) Darkish grey clay becoming 

 in colour. 



reasingly shelly upwards, and lights 



0)Dark gritty greyclay 



iitish phosphate mcipientiy 



Seam of black phosphatic nodules and mainly fragmentary casts of ammonitesx. 



ond other fossils in gritty dark grey clay. 



(iit)Dark grey gritty clay 



nerous crushed fossils 



(i i) Bed of pale soft phosphatic nodules and part ly phosphatised HopOtes (H.) 



(i ) Dark grey gritt y clay. 



(Hi) Highly glauconltic green loam with scattered septarian phosphatic nodules. 



(ii) Highly glauconitic dark grey-green cloy with a few pyritic an 



(i) Highly glauconitic dark grey— green loam with patches of greyclay 



ill-graded and pebbly in basal 6 inches. Thin seams of scattered spherical 

 septarian phosphatic nodules occur at 2 and 10 inches above the base 



Fig. 8. Section in Lower Gault at the Rugby Portland Cement Co. Ltd's Ford Road clay 

 pit, 450 yds N. of Ford Place House, and c. 1100 yds SSW. of Trottiscliffe on W. side of 

 Ford Road, Trottiscliffe, Kent (TQ 63605910). 



