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LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
FIG. 111. 
Section at Maidford, north-west of Towcester. 
An important section at Stowe-nine-Churches, shows the 
sequence of beds from the bottom Oxford Clay, or Kellaways Clay, 
down to the Northampton Sand. My attention was directed to 
the quarry by Mr. Beeby Thompson, who has since described the 
beds in detail, and in whose company the following record was 
made : 
"^ Kellaways 
Clay. 
Cornbrash. 
Great Oolite 
Clay. 
Great Oolite 
Limestone. 
r Stiff grey and brown clay and purplish 
clay with ochreous veins : filling 
j hollows or " pipes " in the beds 
I below - - ' - 3 Oto 
|~ Grey, shelly, and ferruginous lime- 
< stones, with bands of white earthy 
I limestone at base ... 
Grey clay .... 
Hard fissile grey and blue limestones 
Greenish clay, with plant-remains 
Hard and fissile grey shelly limestone ; 
occurs in irregular masses - 
Dark, purplish, carbonaceous clay, 
with selenite and rusty band at 
base - - - - 9 to 
Brown marly clay with reins of fibrous 
gypsum, and pebbles of white lime- 
stone - 
Impersistent layer of greenish shelly 
clay, with lignite 
Oolitic shelly limestone ; Gasteropods, 
numerous Lamellibranchs, Terebra- 
tula maxillata, Clypeus 
Pale marly beds, more or less indu- 
rated, shelly and oolitic : Pholadomya 
Heraulti - 
Oolitic and shelly limestones (base of 
quarry) ; Trigonia costata 
FT. I*. 
1 2 
10 
10 
[Other beds of limestone, noted by Mr. Thompson, 
about 14 feet.] 
Dark clay, &c. 
