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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12683224815).jpg 1856 WRIGHT UPPER LIAS SANDS <br> Fig 2 Section of Frocester Hill near Stonehouse <br> 303 <br> a b c Inferior Oolite ; 70 feet <br> D B Calcareo-ferruginous sandstone Cephalopoda-bed ; 6 feet <br> F Yellow and brown sands with inconstant and concretionary V Upper Lias Sands <br> bands of calcareous sandstone ; 1 50 feet J <br> G Upper Lias shale ; 80 feet <br> H Marlstone ; hard calcareous sandstone resting on brown and grey sands with bands <br> and nodules of ferruginous sandstone ; 150 feet <br> I Lower Lias shale <br> Inferior Oolite <br> Ft in <br> a <br> h <br> A fine-grained oolitic limestone similar to the freestone of <br> Birdlip Painswick and Leckhampton Hills ; the upper <br> beds exhibit a most remarkable example of oblique bed- <br> ding the flaggy layers of which rest horizontally on in- <br> chned beds of freestone thickness about 50 <br> A coarse hght-cream-coloured gritty crystalline oohte <br> traversed at intervals by shelly layers extremely crystal- <br> line ; a great part of the rock appears to be composed <br> of the fragments and plates of Crinoidea the plates and <br> spines of Echinidce and comminuted fragments of the <br> shells of MoUusca This white rock has a most remark- <br> able lithological character and glistens briUiantly when <br> lit up by the sun's rays The shelly and pisolitic seams <br> which traverse this bed resemble those in the Pea-grit <br> The surface of weathered slabs discloses numerous mi- <br> croscopic objects; the rock is in fact almost entirely <br> composed of organic debris It measures about 10 <br> c A hard fine-grained ooHtic sandy limestone of a hght- <br> brown colour lithologically dififerent from b It contains <br> many fossil shells which are extracted with difficulty ; <br> and passes into a hard yellow oohte with few fossils <br> thickness from 8 to 10 <br> The lithological character of this rock is very different <br> to that of d on which it rests <br> The Cephalopoda-bed Upper Lias <br> d A coarse dark-brown calcareo-siliceous rock full of small <br> dark flattened grains of hydrate of iron It contains <br> an immense quantity of fossils but Ammonites and Be- 35338756 109655 51125 Page 303 Text v 12 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338756 1856 Geological Society of London NameFound Crinoidea NameConfirmed Crinoidea EOLID 11119143 NameBankID 594597 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 12 1856 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35338756 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338756 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12683224815 2015-08-27 11 57 31 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1856 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script | ||||
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