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and at Stroud Hill. It is a white fine-grained oolite ; but has 
not, so far as I know, been employed as a freestone. The few 
fossils recorded from it include Pecten demissus, Trigonia costata, 
and Terebratula globata, 
It is now desirable to note some of the principal sections that 
have been exposed from Dursley to Leckhampton. 
The following section at Coaley Wood, Uley Bury, has been 
described in detail by Mr. S. S. Buckman,* in whose company I 
Bed. 
had the advantage of examining the strata : 
Base of Pea Grit Series { Brow . n ferruginous sandy 
L oolite ... 
fHard brown iron-shot 
Zone of | oolite, Am. opalinus 
Ammonites ^ Marly ircn-shot limestone, 
opalinus. \ Am. opalinus, Belem- 
[_ nites, Chemnitzia 
Marl with Am. WrigJiti, 
Belemnites, Astarte 
lurida, Cypricardia, 
Gresslya 
f Iron-shot marly limestone, 
Sub-zone of 1 A. discoides 
A. striatulus. | Iron-shot marl, A. striatu- 
I his, A. radians - 3 to 
fFine yellow micaceous 
sands with bands and 
Sub-zone of J nodules of calcareous 
A. variabilis.} sandstone, A. sublinea- 
\ tus, A. variabilis, Pecten 
[_ about 
Fine yellow sands - about 
Sandstone with A. bifrons 
var., and A. compact His - 
Yellow sands - about 
Upper Lias ~ - Clay. 
FT. IK. 
10 
7 
Cotteswold 
Sands. 
65 
25 
1 
40 
The Cephalopoda Bed may be examined in other places along 
the wooded escarpment which extends to Frocester Hill.f The 
Pea Grit Series, Freestones, and Ragstones are here and there 
exposed. The beds may also be studied at Selsley Hill. 
Excellent sections of the Inferior Oolite are again to be seen 
on Rodborough Common, and on the hill (Stroud Hill) east of 
Stroud. Here lived and laboured for many years Edwin Witchell, 
who (following Lycett) worked out the paleontology of the beds 
in great detail. Under his guidance I had the advantage of 
seeing in this neighbourhood the principal sections, of which the 
following may be taken as a summarj r . 
General section of the Inferior Oolite Series near StroudJ : 
* Inf. Ool. Ammonites (Pal. Soc.), pp. 45, 1G6. 
t For accounts of the beds at Frocester, see Brodie, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. 
vii. p. 210 ; J. Buckman, Ibid., vol. xiv. p. 103 ; Witchell, Geol. Stroud, p. 32. 
J Witchell, Geol. Stroud, p. 5 (plate), and pp. 55, &c. See also Hurileston, Gas- 
teropoda of Inf. Oolite (Pal. Soc.), p. 62. 
