GREAT OOLITE : WOODSTOCK. 
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Great Oolite 
(Upper Division). 
I Sandy marl, with bands of earthy and 
shelly limestone - 
I Oolitic limestone 
* Blue and brown clay 
Hard brown oolitic and shelly stone 
Oolite .... 
Greenish marl 
Hard brown oolitic stone 
White and pinkish shelly and oolitic 
limestones - 
FT. IN. 
This section includes higher beds than those noted at Ashford 
Bridge, and they evidently belong to the series of White Lime- 
stones and Marly beds above the Freestone of Taynton : such as 
may be seen at Milton, and to some extent in the quarries west 
of Burford, north-west of Burfbrd Signett, and again at Swin- 
brook. 
The mass of the Great Oolite between Milton and Woodstock 
appears to be of a very variable character, and the Lower Divi- 
sion is probably much attenuated.* A well at Clinch's Brewery, 
Witney, was dug for 32 ft. 6 in., and a boring afterwards was 
carried to a further depth of 19 feet through alternate bands of 
clay and rock. (See also p. 372.) 
Woodstock. 
The following section was shown in a quarry north-east of the 
railway-station at Handborough : 
Forest Marble 
Great Oolite 
(Upper Division). 
Eubble of Cornbrash (perhaps slipped 
over higher beds of Forest Marble) - 
J" Hard shelly limestone - 
\ Grey clay with " race " 
rCompact brown limestone - -"] 
I False-bedded and fissile oolite, with 
J thin partings of clay, and layers 1 
\ of hard shelly and blue-hearted [ 
| limestone in places. Fish-remains 1 
l_ (palatal teeth) -J 
FT. IN. 
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The beds here assigned to the Great Oolite appear to corre- 
spond with those referred to the same formation in the quarry 
north-east of Blidonf (p. 373). 
In this area near Woodstock and to the north of the town, in 
the valleys of the Glyme and Dome, the upper beds of the Great 
Oolite (which form the plateau north of Woodstock), consist 
mainly of limestone?, more or less shattered and fissured, and 
with only occasional thin layers of marl : they may be about 
30 feet thick. A section south of W cotton showed the following 
beds : 
* See also Green, Geol. Banbury, p. 23. 
f Some fossils from Blaclon are recorded by Prof. Green, Geol. Banbury, p. 25. 
