INFERIOR OOLITE: WINTERTON. 227 
FT. IN. 
Rather compact grey limestones with 
small fossils. 
Drab and brown sandy or loamy shale, 
partly consolidated, with grey clayey 
shale ; in the upper and lower parts, 
beds of the Eaventhorpe type occur, 
Lincolnshire becoming in places very oolitic, and 
Limestone < containing numerous small fossils at 
(Kirton Beds). the base ... about 9 
Bubbly and broken, tough pale brown 
and grey, irregular oolitic limestones, 
stained by ferruginous infiltration in 
places - -5 Oto 6 
Hydraulic Limestone. 
_Impure broken limestone. 
Lower Estuarine clays. 
Rather more than half a mile west of Appleby Station, Homomya 
Vezelayi and Gresslya abducta were obtained. 
Mr. Strangways further states that north of \Yinterton the 
boundaries of the Kirlon Beds become more obscure, and it is a 
matter of some difficulty to decide how much should be included 
within them. A large part of the rock when met with beneath 
the surface in shafts, bore-holes, &c., has usually a dark shaly 
appearance, and this is probably the reason why, in the shafts and 
bore-holes at Appleby, and also on the north side of the Humber, a 
considerable part of the section which must include this rock, is 
called " bind." These beds when burnt make good agricultural 
lime. In places near Winterton the limestone is much hidden by 
Drift Sands, Boulder Clay, &c., but at a little distance to the north 
of the village, the beds rise to a higher level and are better seen ; 
beyond this they are concealed by superficial deposits and are not 
again exposed on this side of the Humber.* 
* Geol. N. Lincolnshire, pp. 75, 76, 79. 
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