Quartz Rock of the Lickey Hill , &c. 
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The quartz rock of the Lower Lickey being thus skirted on each 
side by a small coal-field, and having on its east frontier two 
minute patches of transition lime, with a little trap at its south 
end, and a small portion of old red sandstone containing cornstone 
near its north extremity, is, together with them, completely insu- 
lated and inclosed by a vast extent of new red sandstone, abutting 
against and covering them up on every side, and dividing them 
from the nearest trap, lime, and coal formations at Dudley, on the 
north, at Shatterford near Kidderminster on the west, and at 
Abberly on the south-west, between which points these small frag- 
ments, though apparently so minute, form a valuable connecting 
link.* On the north-west of Dudley, the chain of these forma- 
tions is again resumed in the little mountain group of the Wrekin, 
and in Caer Caradoc, where the quartz rock occurs under circum- 
stances that leave no doubt as to its age and relative position. 
As there has been a difference of opinion on this point, as far as 
relates to the Lickey quartz rock, some geologists considering it of 
the same formation with the millstone grit of Derbyshire, others 
thinking it a peculiar variety of the new red sandstone formation, 
ancient than itself, so that it may sometimes rest immediately on the edge of inclined 
strata of cornstone. 
A good section, in which it may be seen reposing on the basset edge of a siliceous 
conglomerate belonging to the old red sandstone, has been described by Mr. Warburton 
and Dr. Gilby, in the Banks of the Avon below Bristol, and on the north-west of Kidder- 
minster ; at Bircwood Lime-works near Shatterford, there is a thick bed of cornstone, 
dipping at 45° and lying subordinately in the old red sandstone, near which the calcareous 
pebble beds of Tremplay Green (being the breccia of the new red sandstone) rest imme- 
diately on the edges of strata belonging to the old red sandstone formation. 
* I am informed there are the remains of some small neglected coal-works at Apsley 
heath, on the west of Tamworth ; these probably form another link in the same broken, 
chain of dislocated fragments and patches of coal-measures of which we have two 
cases before us at the Lower Lickey, and of which several examples occur on the west 
and north-west of Shrewsbury, near the edge of the new red sandstone. 
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