GREAT OOLITE : KEMBLE. 
socialis, Isocardia minima, Lima cardiiformis, Lucina bellona, Macrodon 
hirsonensis, Ostrea costata, Pachyrisma grande, Pecteii vagans, Pteroperna 
costatula, Terebratula maxillata, Anabacia, Isastraea, &c. 
In the Lower Division : Nerita rugosa, Area Pratti, Gervillia acuta, 
Lima cardiiformis, Pecben lens, P. vagans, Placunopsis socialis, Trigonia 
impressa, Ehynchonella conciniia, Clypeus Hiilleri, &c. 
In the cuttings and quarries near Kemble railway-station, and 
bordering the Cirencester Branch railway, the following sequence 
may be traced : 
Kemble 
Beds. 
FT. 
4 
5 
4 
White 
Limestone. 
Shattered oolitic limestone 
Marly clay with palatal teeth of Fishes 
Brown oolite in tolerably even layers - 
False-bedded shelly oolite, with palatal 
teeth of Fishes, "Ostrea, &c., and beds 
of somewhat sandy limestone yield- 
ing remains of Thuytes divaricatus - 7 
Hard fissile sandy limestone and marls 3 
Pale false-bedded sandy and oolitic 
limestone - 1 
Hard shelly and oolitic limestone - 2 
Marly oolitic clay with irregular") 
layers of limestone, with | 
Rhynchonella dbsoleta, Tere- )>1 to 1 
bratula maxillata, and spines I 
of Echini. J 
Impersistent white inarly and slightly 
oolitic limestone. Fossil Bed, with 
Terebratula maxillata, Rhynchonella 
dbsoleta, Lima cardiiformis, &c. - 1 
f Pale buff and white oolites and 
\ sparsely oolitic limestone - 4 6 to 6 
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Here the Kemble Beds are well shown, though we do not see 
their connection with the Forest Marble, which must (with its 
basement Bradford Clay) be near at hand. 
Leaving Kemble Station, and passing along the Kemble and 
Tetbury Railway, we come to two shallow cuttings in Great 
Oolite, before we reach the principal section. At the commence- 
ment of that section we find an exposure of grey clay, with a 
rubble on top of shelly ami marly limestone, suggestive of Corn- 
brash. The clay is evidently Forest Marble, and faulted against 
the Great Oolite. A long and interesting section of Great 
Oolite is then seen as follows (see Fig. 83) : 
5. Pale false-bedded and fissile oolite (like 
the beds 'worked at Kemble Station) ; 
with marly layers ... 
4. Brown and white marly clay, with 
occasional fissile beds of pale shelly 
oolite : Ostrez abundant 2 to 
Hard irregular marly stone, weather- 
ing to a rubbly marl at surface (im- 
persistent). Fossil Bed ; with Tere- 
bratula maxillata, Lima cardiiformis, 
&c. - . . - 2 to 
FT. IK. 
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