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LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
were seen to be faulted against a mass of Fuller's Earth Clay, and 
Inferior Oolite. The clay was used for making bricks, tiles, and 
FIG. 34. 
Section in Railway -cutting west of Crewkerne Station. 
FT. IN. 
7. Pale rubbly oolitic limestones (/one of Am- 
monites Parhinsoni) - - 6 
6. Brown shelly and iron-shot oolite - - 2 
5. Hard brown limestone passing into compact 
grey oolitic limestone - - 1 5 
4. Pale sandy and shelly limestones - - 3 
3. Brown sandy marl with Terebratula infra- 
oolitica - - - 1 
2. Indurated marl and sandy limestone with 
Ammonites, Belemnites, Pecten Iceviradi- 
atus, and JRhynchonella - - 1 3 
1. Sands with irregular bands and nodules of 
calcareous sandstone : Pecten, Rhyncho- 
nella cynocephala, Serpula - 6 
drain-pipes, the sand also was used in the brick-making, while the 
stone was burnt for lime. (See Fig. 35.) 
Fossiliferous sandy beds were seen in a road-cutting west of 
Crewkerne, and on the main road between Crewkerne and 
Haselbury. At the former locality the sands, just below the 
Oolite, are crowded with Serpulce, a small Ostrea, and Rhyn- 
clwnella cynocephala ; at the latter place we find, rather lower in 
the scries, a shelly bed with Rhynchonella, that approaches in 
character to the North Perrot and Ham Hill stones. 
By the cross-roads east of Little Silver, between Haselbury 
and East Chinnock, the following section was exposed : 
FT. IN. 
fSandy limestone in flaggy beds, alter- 
| nating with sand. Rhynchonella 
-nr-jr- je jJ cynocephala, Terebratula infra-oolitica, 
Midford Sand^ ^ d J 8trig iUata - - -60 
] Brown sandy and soft shelly limestones 
[_ with small Ammonites - - 6 
The upper beds are like those at Crewkerne railway-cutting 
and Stoke Knap, while the beds below partake of the nature of 
the North Perrot stone, but are not so shelly. 
The quarry south of Misterton showed a few beds of the pale 
limestones, belonging to the zone of A. Parkinsoni ; lower down 
there were brown oolitic and iron- shot limestones (2 ft. "2 in.) ; 
and, at the base, hard grey shelly and oolitic limestones, yielding 
fine specimens of Ceromya concentrica, and also Gryphcea sublobata 
the latter recalling the Gryphite Grit of the Cotteswold Hills. 
