cOREST MARBLE : WOODSTOCK. 
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also the case at Islip. 
following section : 
A quarry north-east of Bladon showed the 
Soil - Brown brashy loam 
f" Hard brown arid grey rubbly lime- 
Cornbrash -< stones, with. Terebratula intermedia, 
I &c. - 
Blue and brown clay 
Fissile oolitic limestone - 
Blue and brown laminated clay 
Clay with thin bands of shelly and 
oolitic limestone 
False-bedded brown oolitic limestones 
with Rhynchonella 
Forest Marble -^ Blue clay (of irregular thickness), with 
lignite and compressed shells 
Blue and grey marly oolitic limestone 
(of irregular thickness) 
Dark blue and grey clay 
Buff and blue false-bedded oolite. Bot- 
torn beds used for building - 
_Thin clay (impersistent) . 
' Buff and blue oolitic and shelly lime- 
Great Oolite - 4 stones without clay -partings. (Build- 
ing-stone.) Fish-remains - about 
[" Soft limestone, not worked."] 
FT. 
9 
IN. 

8 
10 
6 
10 
The above grouping corresponds with that adopted by Prof. Hull.* 
The lower beds here appear to be identical with the stone-beds 
worked in the quarry north-east of Handborough railway-station 
(see p. 319), and like them they contain palatal teeth of fishes. 
The entire thickness of the Forest Marble was well shown in 
the cuttings of the bran ca-rail way to "Woodstock. (See Fig. 108.) 
The details are as follow : 
Cornbrash (see p. 447). 
TBlue and greenish-grey clay with 
nodules of limestone - 
Shelly oolitic and marly limestone, 
false-bedded - - 1 to 
Blue and grey shaly clay and marly 
oolitic beds, with irregular layers of 
blue flaggy and false-bedded oolitic 
_ limestone .... 
Great Oolite (see p. 320). 
Forest Marble 
FT. IN. 
6 
11 
The Forest Marble is thus reduced to about 18 feet thick, and 
is in the main a clayey formation. 
The beds have again been well exposed at the famous quarries 
near Bletchington railway-station. (Seep. 321). On the eastern 
side of the railway, south-east of the station, the lower beds of 
the Cornbrash, and the whole of the Forest Marble were exposed, 
as follows : 
* Geol. Woodstock, p. 23. 
