94 LIAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES : 
To the east of Little Stoke, the New Red Marl appears at the 
surface not far inland, ow'uig to faults. Ht-nce a4ong the coast 
westwards to Blue Anchor \ve fin.l the cliffs changing abruptly 
from Lias or Rhsetic Beds to Red Marls. Here and there we 
find large stacks of Lower Lias limestones and shales, which in 
some instances have broken away and slipped from faulted masses 
in the cliffs. 
A fine section of Lower Lias and Rhsetic Beds is exposed 
immediately east of Little Stoke gap, and these beds are faulted 
further east against the Lower Lias, traces of the black Rhsetic 
shales being squeezed in along the fault-plane. The lowest beds of 
the Lias here consist of limestones, thin limestone-shales, and dark 
shales. 
From Little Stoke to Kilve the beds exhibit many undula- 
tions and faults, with downthrows on the east, so that lower and 
lower beds are presented to view as we pass westwards, and we 
come to grey shales with flattened specimens of Ammonites 
angulatus, belonging to division No. 2. 
A cave has been excavated in the beds at one point, and to 
the e:ist of this, there is a fault with apparently a considerable 
downthrow on the west. Ammonites and other fossils are 
occasionally to be seen on the platforms of rock on the foreshore 
west of the cavern, but the specimens are too firmly imbedded to 
be hammered out. 
West of Kilve and below East Quautockshead, there occur the 
finest of the Lias cliffs on this coast, the limestones are well-shown 
but they are not very accessible, for an occasional bluff or head- 
land impedes the progress of the pedestrian. Still further west- 
ward a fault brings these Lias limestones and dark shales 
abruptly against the Red Marls. Thence towards St. Audries we 
can trace the upward succession, in highly inclined strata, from the 
Red Marls with bands of hard limestone, through the Rhsetic 
Beds to the Lower Lias. (See Fig. 44.) 
The Lower Lias Limestones at St. Audries consist of jointed 
yellow limestones and shales, resting on a thick series of grey 
shaly marls with occasional bands of limestone (30 or 35 feet thick), 
and these again repose on beds of limestone and laminated lime- 
stone-shales with Ammonites plunorbis, Ostrea liassica, Modiola 
minima, &c. 
Slabs covered with specimens of Pullastra, having the shell 
preserved, have been obtained from shales near the base of the 
Lias at St. Audries, and again by the gangway west of Watchet 
and near Blue Anchor. 
A detailed section of the Lower Lias at St. Audries, showing 
about 40 feet of these strata, has been recorded by Messrs. Bristow 
and Ether idge.* The western portion of the cliffs is not clearly 
* Vertical Sections, Geol. Surv., Sheet 47, No. G. See also Wright, Lias 
Ammonites (Palseontograph. Soc.), P- 12. 
