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A little to the north-west of the great quarry, on the other 
side of the long ridge-like hill, there is a somewhat overgrown 
cutting showing calcareous shales and muddy limestones, with 
bands of more massive and purer limestone. The same beds 
are seen in the lane leading from Thornton towards Langber 
and East Marton and are numbered (2) on the sketch map. 
Fossils are difficult to obtain, but I have found crinoid stems 
and plates, Syringopora ramulosa, and fragments of shells, 
amongst which Aihyris, probably planosulcata, and Orthotetes, 
probably crenistria, were recognisable. These beds are apparently 
lower in the series than those in the larger exposure. 
In the road leading from Thornton village to the station, 
a recent cutting revealed calcareous shales and hmestones 
Fig. ]. 
SECTION THROUGH THORNTON VILLAGE TO THE GRIT HILLS AT ELSLACK MOOR. 
At a, b, c, d there are no exposures. Horizontal Scale, Sin. =1 mile. 
dipping at a low angle towards the north-west. There is 
obviously some disturbance here, faulting or folding or both. 
Near Thornton Hall, also in a road-side cutting, the beds dip 
into the hill, again showing disturbance along the northern 
limb of the anticline. These abnormal dips are mentioned 
in the Survey Memoir (p. 31), and it is suggested that they are 
probably due to dragging over of the beds by glaciers coming 
from the north. But the recent cutting, for the purpose of 
laying down a sewer, showed a persistent low dip to west of 
north, and I would suggest that here is a sharp fold and that 
a diagrammatic section drawn from north-west to south-east 
would show beds as in Fig. 1. See sketch map, Thornton village. 
The next exposure is that numbered (3) on the sketch- 
map. It is a little west of Thornton Hall. The beds are the 
