GREAT OOLTTE : CIRENCESTER. 285 
Prof. Buckman."* The details of the beds are however subject 
to much variation. From this locality he obtained the Reptilian 
eggs named Oolithes bathonicce, in a bed of white freestone ; and 
these he considered to have belonged to Teleosaurus.^ (See 
pp. 17, 313.) 
These rocks are overlaid to the north-east by beds of undoubted 
Forest Marble, well shown in a quarry and in the adjoining rail- 
way-cuttings that extend by the Norcott plantation. 
The upper strata may be grouped as passage-beds between the 
Great Oolite and Forest Marble ; and the top bed appears to 
correspond with the thick layer of blue and brown oolitic and 
shelly lime&tone, marked in the section south of Cirencester. 
The top layer of white and compact limestone belongs to the White 
Limestone series, and corresponds with one of the beds of Dagham 
stone. 
The general section of the Great Oolite at Cirencester appears 
to be as follows : 
FT. IN. 
v -i -, f Oolites (false-bedded chiefly at base) 
Jxemble j it_i j.i. i i 
pi -4 and marly beds with occasional 
I fossil-beds- - from 30 to 10 
"WVt ("White and oolitic limestones with 
T . -4 tubiform markings (Dagham Stone) 
ne< [ 8 to 10 
Lower f False-bedded and fissile oolite and 
Division. * calcareous sandstones 25 to 35 
The Kemble Beds evidently become thinner when traced from 
Kemble to Cirencester ; while onwards in a north-easterly direc- 
tion they become overlapped, near Bauntori Downs, by the Forest 
Marble, which then rests directly on the White Limestone. 
Cirencester to Sevenhampton, Salperton, JVaunton, and 
Stow-on-the- Wold. 
A quarry on the Cheltenham road, east of Stratton, showed 
the following section : 
FT. IN. 
T3i 4- TVT vi f Rubbly beds of marl and marly lime- 
Forest Marble I ^ ^ h band opowde / with 
(passage-beds). 
o 
O 
fFalse-bedded shelly oolites, fissile in 
I places, and with thin partings of 
Kemble J marl - 4 
Beds. | Fissile marly bed - - 3 
| Hard rubbly oolite - - - 3 
I False-bedded oolite - - 2 3 
fHard and compact white limestone, 
with scattered grains of oolite - 2 3 
White J Marly band - .-10 
Limestone. } Fine-grained brown oolite 
I Hard white oolite 
(^Fine-grained brown oolite 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 117. See also Journ. Bath and W. of 
Eng. Soc.. vol. xiii. p. 220. 
f Ibid., vol. xvi. p. 107. See also figure iu Prestwich's Geology, vol. ii. p. 206. 
