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THE GEOLOGIST. 



Mr. Whitaker said about a few hundred yards further on, in the same 

 valley, in sinking a foundation for a chimney some years ago, the workmen 

 found several deer's horns and some bones, but they have probably been 

 destroyed. 



2. Mr. Binney read a translation of part of Dr. Geinitz's work ' On the 

 Magnesian Limestone and Lower Red Sandstone,' by J. W. Kirkby, Esq., 

 and himself. 



Appended to the translation are the following Tables by Mr. Kirkby and 

 Mr. Binney : — 



Tabular Vtew or the Permian Strata or the North-East or England. 



SUBDIVISIONS, 



DURHAM. 



SOUTH YORKSHIRE. 



Bunter Schiefer. 



Red Sandstone overlying the 

 Magnesian Limestone in the S.E. 

 part of the county? — (Howse.) 



Thickness,— 50 ft. ? 



Red Sandstone and Marl near 

 Doncaster and Tickhill — (Geol. 

 Survey.) 



Thickness— 50 ft? 



Upper 

 Limestone. 



Yellow and Oolitic Limestone 

 of Roker and Hartlepool; and 

 Botryoidal, Concretionary , and 

 Crystalline Limestone of Half- 

 way House, Building Hill, Ful- 

 well and Cleadon Hills, and coast 

 from Whitburn to Marsden. 



Thickness— 250 ft. 



Brotherton Limestone of Bro- 

 therton, Knottiugley, TVomers- 

 ley, Pickburu, Loversal, Wad- 

 worth, Tickhill, etc. 



Thickness— 120 ft. 







Middle 

 Limestone. 



Shell Limestone of Tunstall 

 and Humbleton Hill, Ryhope, 

 Dalton-le-Dale, Hylton Castle, 

 Clack's Heugh, etc. ; and Con- 

 cretionary or Pseudo-brecciated 

 Limestone of Galley's Gill, Tron 

 Rocks, coast between Ryhope and 

 Hawthorne Hive, etc. 



Thickness— 150? 



Small-grained Dolomite of 

 Lound Hill, Vale of Went, Brods- 

 worth, Cusworth, Levit Hagg, 

 Warmsworth, Roche Abbey, etc. 



Thickness— 200 ft. 



Lower 

 Limestone. 



Limestone of Pallion, Millfield, 

 Pensher, Newbottle, Honghton- 

 le-Spring, Moorsley, Pittington, 

 Sherburn, Perry Hill, Summer- 

 house, etc. 



Thickness— 200 ft. 



Limestone of Pontefract, Era- 

 sail, Yfentbridge, Hampole, Brods- 

 worth, Barnsbro' Cliff, Cadeby, 

 Conisborough, etc. 



Thickness— 120 ft. 



Red, Yellow, and Variegated 

 Sandstones of Pontefract, Hickle- 

 ton, YVentbridge, Cadeby, etc. 



Thickness— 100 ft.? 



Marl Slate. 



Marl Slate of Clack's Heugh, 

 Down Hill, Midderidge, Perry 

 Hill, etc. 



Thickness— 10 ft. 



Lower 

 Red Sandstone. 



Incoherent and Red Sand- 

 stone of Clack's Heugh, Hylton 

 Castle, Tynemouth Cliff, Downs' 

 Quarry, Sherburn, etc. 



Thickness— 100 ft. 



Total fkiclcness—W ft- 



Total t/iicfoiess—o90 ft. 



