Fullers’ Earth “ Passage Beds 
VOL. XIX. (i) 
DEEP BORING .\T SHIPTON MOYNE 
5> 
Thickness 
of rocks Depth 
Ft. Ins. Ft. Ins 
42. 
Light-grey limestone, “ sparry,” obscurely 
oolitic (spec. 42a). ‘ The bottom foot or 
so is of a yet lighter grey tint with irregu- 
larly-distributed white oolite-granules 
(spec. 42b) . . 
9 
4 
161 
6 
43- 
Yellowish oolite 
I 
I 
162 
7 
44- 
Grey impure limestone (having films of 
blackish shale associated with it) and very 
sparsely oolitic (44) 
5 
1 1 
168 
6 
45- 
Dark-grey, sandy, shaly rock— the sandy 
matter and films of shale alternating ir- 
regularly (spec. 45) 
2 
6 
171 
0 
46. 
Dark marl, with occasional irregularly-de- 
veloped limestone layers (spec. 46) in the 
top portion. The middle portion soon 
breaks up on exposure 
5 
3 
176 
3 
47- 
Marl, similar to 46 
I 
0 
177 
3 
480. 
Rock and marl similar to the upper part of 46 
6 
0 
183 
3 
b. 
Dark, shaly, sandy marl (very similar to 45), 
with subordinate layers of impure lime- 
stone 
5 
3 
188 
6 
c. 
\’ery light-grey, fine-grained impure lime- 
stone, sandy to the touch (spec. 48r) 
4 
9 
193 
3 
40rL 
Very light-grey, fine-grained, impure lime- 
stone, sandy to the touch, with an oc- 
casional white oolite-granule, casts of 
lamellibranchs, and n Rhynchonelln of the 
R. concivna-gTou\) (spec. 49a) . . 
3 
3 
196 
6 
h. 
Ifimestone, very similar, but more calcareous 
and therefore harder, with blackish, ir- 
regular and sporadically-distributed oolite 
granules ; IJnia sp. (spec. 4gh) . . 
4 
6 
201 
0 
c. 
Marly rock 
I 
6 
202 
6 
d. 
Impure limestone 
0 
6 
203 
0 
50- 
Indurated marl 
3 
0 
206 
0 
51- 
Light-grey, very coarsely oolitic, rather softer 
limestone ; Evtolnim demissum (Phil.) . . 
6 
0 
212 
0 
.52. 
Limestone, very similar to 51, but softer and 
pisolitic 
T 
0 
213 
0 
53- 
Light-grey, fine-grained, slightly sandy lime- 
stone — a conspicuous stratum (spec. 53) . 
I 
4 
214 
4 
54- 
Marl, black shaly, without fossils (spec. 54) 
5 
2 
219 
6 
55 - 
Shelly limestone in irregular layers with inter- 
vening irregular layers of marl. Crowded 
with small specimens of Ostrea acuminata 
Sow., Chlamys vagans (J. de C. Sow), 
Rhynchonella of 7?.-concfn««-group 
13 
2 
232 
8 
A hard conspicuous stratum practically composed of 
the valves of Ostrea acuminata Sow. embedded in a 
white matrix occurs at 224 ft. down (spec. 55). 
56. 
Limestone, grey, less shelly than those beds in 
deposit 55 
0 
10 
233 
6 
The specimens referred to in brackets have been placed in the Cheltenham Town Museum. 
