INFERIOR OOLITE SERIES: RADSTOCK. 
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welded together, and irregular granular aggregates of quartz 
occurred and formed the matrix. 
Near Mells siding the railway-cutting showed the following 
series of beds : 
FT. IN. 
Grey and brown clayey soil. 
Bubbly oolite - - 3 to 5 or more 
Massive bedded pale oolite - 3 
Compact shelly oolite with quartz 
pebbles ; Isastrcea, Trigonia -13 
Rather sandy and shelly limestone 1 3 
Oolite 
"Brown coarsely oolitic and sandy 
limestone ... 
Bubbly iron-shot and earthy 
oolitic limestone ; Pseudome- 
Inferior Oolite-s lania and Rhynchonella spinosa 
(abundant in upper part) 
Hard oolitic and sandy limestone ; 
Serpula, Trigonia, and casts of 
Gasteropods 
Compact slightly oolitic lime-' 
stone, and more or less oolitic 
and iron-shot limestone, having V 6 3 
a general rubbly appearance - | 
Friable sandy limestone - -J 
_Dark grey oolitic limestone 
/ Slate-coloured clay (throwing out 
"I springs). 
Lias 
Fossils have not proved sufficiently abundant to afford evidence 
for zones. The Rev. G. Horner informed me that Ammonites 
Jmmphriesianus had been obtained from this neighbourhood ; but 
I was unable to see the specimen. 
North-west of Mells, by " Edney's Farm " (Mr. Swanton's 
Lower Farm), about 12 feet of pale and false-bedded oolites have 
been quarried, and used for inside-work in Mells church. These 
are evidently the upper beds of Inferior Oolite that are to be seen 
in the railway-cutting. I obtained only one specimen of 
Trigonia. 
East and north-east of Kilmersdon there are many quarries in 
the Inferior Oolite, on the eastern side of the valley leading 
towards Radstock ; here thick beds of stone are worked, and these 
are equivalent to the top beds of Dundry and the limestones at 
Midford. The features are well marked, the Inferior Oolite 
forming a terrace on the brow of the valley, surmounted by the 
Fuller's Earth and a minor escarpment of Fuller's Earth Rock, 
above which is the more prominent scarp of the Forest Marble. 
North-west of Bowldish, east of Paulton, there were exposed 
10 feet of oolitic limestones, with a lenticular coral-bed; 
Terebratula globata is present, and Rhynchonella spinosa occurs in 
shoals at the base. The beds here are but little above the Lias : 
indeed the shaft at the coal-works a short distance to the west, 
passes through Inferior Oolite and Lias. 
On Clan Down, south of Camerton Farm, there is a quarry 
showing about 12 feet of pale and buff, finely oolitic limestone, 
