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LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
Great 
Oolite 
(Upper 
Division). 
Rubble - 
Thin beds of white limestone more or 
leas oolitic - 
Rubbly marl and limestone 
Hard white shelly limestone 
White limestone 
Ditto (browner at base) : full of uni 
valves, Natica, &c. 
JPale brown limestone, very oolitic 
FT. Is. 
3 
A quarry to the north-west of this, "at the meeting of the 
Oxford and Shilton Roads above Burford," yielded a number of 
fossils, recorded by Prof. Hull, including Natica, Nerincea, 
Ceromya concentrica, Corbis, Isocardia, Lucina, Myacites, Pecten 
annulatus, Pholadomya Heraulti, Thracia, Trigonia, Terebratula 
maxillata (abundant), Echinobrissus, &c.* 
A little east of West well, near Burford, the following section 
was exposed : t 
FT. IN. 
Grea A OolitP f^ 1 ^ 16 and S re 7 marl y cla 7> more or 
Lrrea.Uolite I j disturbed. 
( J T)T)GT* "S / 
-A *T i \vhite limestone, very finely oolitic in 
Division). L placeg: Corals '. . 5 
North-east of Westwell and south of Mount Pleasant, .the 
following section showed beds on a lower horizon : 
FT. IN. 
Dark brown or black clay - "j 
Rubble of marly oolitic lime- > 2 to 3 
stone and marl- - J 
Yellowish marly clay, full of oysters - T 
Black clay, with large flattened specimens I ^ ,-. 
of Terdbratula maxillata "I 
Upper Marly clay, full of oysters - -J 
Division < Bluish-grey limestone, very shelly and 
Marly Beds. slightly oolitic, with T. m&cillata 
(flattened) - - - - 10 
Impure marly clay with T. maxillata, 
Serpula, and many oysters - 1 
Pink and grey current-bedded oolitic 
marly limestone, with shelly layers at 
{_ base - - - - 1 1 
Lower 
Division 
Freestone. 
I Pale shelly oolite .... 
I Tough, pale, and somewhat flaggy oolite 
It will be interesting, as well as important, to give the full 
details of the strata passed through in the Burford boring, for 
reference has already been made to the subject in the volume 
dealing with the Lias (p. 221). The grouping of the beds differs 
from that published elsewhere ; but it is possible that too great 
a thickness is assigned to the Inferior Oolite. There may, as at 
Swmbrook, be no partings of clay between Great and Inferior 
Oolite. The 
level. 
boring was commenced about 350 feet above sea- 
* Geol. Cheltenham, pp. 63, 67. 
\ See also section bj- Hull, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 64. 
