Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13071337884).jpg 1867 <br> BFETOX KH TIC BEDS NEAR AIXSBOEOUGH <br> 317 <br> of the Society's Joiirnal and at Batheaston and Westburj as de- <br> scribed by Mr Moore in <br> vol xvii of the same pub- <br> lication forms the base <br> At Beer Crowcomb how- <br> ever as described by the <br> latter we find a pale-blue <br> stone 1 foot 2 inches thick <br> with vegetable -like mark- <br> ings followed by blue shaly <br> marl given as the lowest <br> bed of the series which may <br> be taken as the equivalent <br> of the lowest Gainsborough <br> bed; and perhaps at the <br> well-known Aust Cliff lo- <br> cality where the bone-bed <br> is described by Dr Wright <br> as lying abruptly on the <br> Keuper the stratum of pale <br> arenaceous marl 1 foot in <br> thickness which though <br> placed by him on the top <br> of the Keuper in tex- <br> ture apparently resembles <br> the lowest Ehsetic bed of <br> Gainsborough may be an- <br> other of its equivalents <br> This however I hazard <br> only as a conjecture and <br> on the slight supposition <br> that the fossils of the Ehaetic <br> type should it contain any <br> are so few as to have hi- <br> therto escaped observation <br> Following the line in a <br> southerly or south-easterly <br> course towards Lincola <br> which coincides with the <br> direction of the dip we <br> find in corresponding order <br> the various beds of the <br> series laid bare the next of <br> which No 2 in the section <br> consists of a stratum of <br> black fissile shale 8 feet in <br> thickness containing nests <br> of pyrites and having se- <br> veral thin non-continuous <br> veins of grey pyritous stone imbedded in it <br> Keupti flails <br> The main bulk of this <br> z2 36345070 112028 51125 Page 317 Text v 23 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36345070 1867 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 23 1867 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36345070 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36345070 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-10 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13071337884 2015-08-26 13 55 34 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1867 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1867 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script |