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THE RHiETIC ROCKS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 
Between Barnstone, Elton, and Orston, the Lias-capped Rhsetics 
form a low but very clearly-defined escarpment along the outcrop 
facing west, with a very palpable and regular dip-slope in the contrary 
direction towards the Vale of Bel voir. At the boring for coal now, or 
lately, in progress at Owthorpe, near Colston Bassett, beneath 33 feet 
of blue shale of uncertain geological age, fourteen feet of paper 
shales, and then nineteen feet of “ tea-green marls ” were penetrated. 
Stanton-on-tlie-Wolds .—During the construction of the new Midland 
line from Nottingham to London, the following interesting section was 
exposed at the north end of the tunnel at Stanton-on-the-Wolds, 
between Nottingham and Melton Mowbray :— 
Section at Stanton-on-the-Wolds. 
Post-Tertiary. Ft. in. Ft. in. 
Boulder Clay with local intercalations of Drift 
sand .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 0 to 60 0 
IIh.®tic “Avicula contorta” Shares, 13ft. 
Shales, dark coloured, thickly laminated with a 
few thin seams of sandstone and a band of 
blue nodular limestone 1'9 from base: Cas- 
sianella contorta, Axinus elongatus, Proto- 
cardium Philijpjpianuin.. 
Pyritic sandstone .. .. .. .. .. 0 OJ 
Shales, darker and more thinly laminated than 
overlying, with streaks of fine white sand : 
Cassianella contorta, Axinus elongatus, Pro- 
tocardium Philippianum 
Pyritic limestone with Axinus elongatus, Modiola 
minima, fish scales, sun cracks .. .. 0 0^ 
Shales, black fissile, with thin streaks of fine 
grey sand .. .. .. .. .. 0 9 
Bone Bed, or coprolite seam, quartz pebbles 
and white sand: spines of Nemacanthus 
filifer, sp., and Hyhodus, teeth and scales 
of Saurichthys acuminatus, Hyhodus minor, 
Hyhodus reticulatus Hyhodus sp., Acrodus 
minimus, Sargodon toynicus, Ceratodus altus, 
Gyrolepis tenuistriata, Gyrolepis sp., 
various Cestraciont palatal teeth, teeth 
of Ichthyosawnis platyodon. Ichthyosaurus 
sp., other reptilian and piscine teeth, 
vertebrae and other bones, and coprolites 
Shales, black compact fissile, and earthy layers 
alternating 
Coprolite seam, coprolites at wide intervals .. 
Shales, black, with a few large reptilian bones 
Tea-green Marls, Upper Keeper. 
Light blue marls, weathering yellowish green, 
and breaking up into cuboidal fragments; 
base not seen .. 
6 0 
to 0 
3 0 
0 1 
0 10 
0 1 
1 4 
0 1 
1 3 
20 0 
