THE GEOLOGIST. 
APRIL, 1858. 
ON THE LOWER CARBONIEEROUS BEDS OF TEE 
CLEE HILLS. 
By Geoege E. Robeets, Esq., of Kidderminster, 
Member of the " Worcestershire Naturalist Field Club," &c. 
Peehaps in all the physical geology of England there is nothing finer 
than the erupted heights of the Clee. Encircled by the typical " Old 
Red" — a wide-stretching tract of alternating sandy shores and gravel- 
beaches of that period — are the characteristic beds of the coal-measures, 
lying upon Millstone Grit and Mountain Limestone. 
Of the causes that have elevated these deposits into the hills of Titter- 
stone and the Brown Clee I need not speak — their basaltic summits, 
where the erupted rock has assumed a rude columnar form after cooling, 
are sufficient evidence ; but I would direct especial attention to that 
group of beds whose strike is along the Oreton ridge, and whose chief 
member, the Mountain Limestone, forms its axial line. This lies mid- 
way between the two hills ; its southern side slopes down the 
" Common," and is composed of Millstone Grit, cut off abruptly by a 
long line of fault, the effect of which has been to have depressed that 
deposit into a valley, and to have raised the underlying " Old Red " 
into a nearly continuous line of cliff. The accompanying section will 
better describe their relative positions. 
