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DESCRIPTION OF THE SECTIONS. 



PLATE 29 1 TO 37. 

 PLATE 29. 



Fig. I. From the Cotteswold Hill near Cheltenham on the east, to Haffield Camp near Ledbury, 

 Herefordshire, on the west ; showing a conformable succession of all the formations, from the 

 Inferior Oolite to the base of the New Red System. The subdivisions of the lias and of the 

 upper portion of the New Red System (including the Keuper Sandstone), are the chief objects. 

 The Lower New Red Sandstone, properly so called, is not developed ; the New Red System 

 being terminated by a conglomerate partially filled with syenite. The Old Red Sandstone in 

 unconformable strata, rises from beneath the New Red conglomerate. See p. 14 et seq. 



Fig. 2. From the Hawkston Hills, Shropshire, to the Peckforton Hills, Cheshire; indicating the 

 position of a basin of lias around Prees and Cloverly. See p. 22 et seq. 



Fig. 3. From Lyth Hill near Shrewsbury, to Prees; explaining the succession of strata from the 

 coal-measures to the lias, including the subdivisions of the New Red System. The coal- 

 measures passing upwards into the Lower New Red Sandstone, constitute the newest member 

 of the Carboniferous System, contain fresh-water limestone, are highly dislocated, and repose 

 upon the Cambrian Rocks. See p. 39. 



Fig. 4. Shows a peculiar conglomerate at the base of the New Red Sandstone, (Rosemary Rock, 

 Worcester). The Lower Silurian Rocks of Ankerdine Hill are in unconformable contact. See 

 pp. 53, 415. 



Fig. 5. Lower New Red Sandstone and Upper Coal-measures at Wellbatch, near Shrewsbury, rest- 

 ing on Cambrian Rocks as in f. 3. See pp. 93 et seq. 



Fig. 6. Upper coal and fresh-water limestone at Uffington, near Shrewsbury, resting unconformably 

 on Cambrian Rocks as in figs, 3 and 5. See pp. 81, 92. 



Fig. 7* Upper coal and freshwater limestone at Pontesbury, passing under Lower New Red Sand- 

 stone and calcareous conglomerate, and resting upon the quartz rock of the Stiper stones. See 

 pp. 81, 83 et seq. 



Fig. 8. Section of the upper coal and limestone strata, as seen near Pontesbury where affected by a 

 fault. The details of the Shrewsbury coal seams, and their relations to the included limestone, 

 are here expressed on a larger scale than in the other sections. See p. 90. 



Fig. 9. Upper coal-measures of the Shrewsbury field, resting upon Silurian Rocks at Bauseley and 

 Bragginton, showing further how the same coal-measures pass under the Lower New Red 

 Sandstone of Pecknall near Alberbury, the whole surmounted by calcareous conglomerate, the 

 equivalent of the Magnesian Limestone or Dolomitic Conglomerate. See pp. 29, 82. 



1 There is no PI. 28. in this work, the subject of PI. 27. being that which terminates the illustration of the 

 Organic Remains and immediately precedes PI. 29. This was caused by the desire to place the folding plates 

 of sections after the single plates of the Organic Remains; the former having been numbered at an early period, 

 in order to pass the work through the press. 



