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THE CRETACEOUS ROCKS OE BRITAIN. 
At the eastern end of Kempstone Rocks the uppermost bed of the 
Greensand has been quarried away, and in the recess thus left an 
interesting section of the beds which overlie it is seen (Fig. 35). 
ft. in. 
B. Whitish gritty limestone with a chalky matrix, weather¬ 
ing into lumpy layers, few fossils ; layer of green- 
f coated nodules at the top -.19 
A 2 . Hard compact greyish shelly limestone - - - - 2 0 
Al. Coarse grit with calcareous cement, some fossils, espe¬ 
cially Ceriocava ramulosa near base - - up to 2 0 
The lowest bed, Al, is 2 feet thick in the corner, but thins out 
entirely in a few yards, leaving only A2 and B to continue west¬ 
ward. These can be reached at the top of a gully about the middle 
of the cliff-face, Bed A2here yielding Am. [ Acanth .] Mantelli , Am. 
[Hoplites] curvatus, Trigonia vicaryana, Inoceramus striatus and 
Lima (cast). From B I obtained Septifer lineatus , Pleurotoinaria 
sp.j Rhynchonella dimidiata , Terebratella pectita, Discoidea 
subuculus, and the claw of a Crustacean. 
Fig. 35.—Sketch of an Old Quarry at Kempstone Rocks. 
4. Whitish gritty limestone (B). c. Calcareous sandstone ) 
3. Compact shelly limestone (A2). h. Coarse quartz-sand !■ Selbornian. 
2. Coarse calcareous grit (Al). a. Calcareous sandstone) 
There is an old quarry further inland east of Dunscombe Farm 
where the same beds are exposed, but are only accessible in one 
place ; here Al, with its usual characters and fossils, varies from 
15 to 30 inches in thickness, and is overlain by a massive compact 
limestone, which appears to be A2, while at this point B seems to 
be represented by a layer of green-coated nodules. A few yards off, 
however, blocks of Bed B, having the usual aspect of a whitish 
