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Rh OF RH^TIC BEDS IN LEICESTERSHIRE.

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Fig. i. — Vertical Section of Rhcetic Beds, Spinney Hills, near Leicester.

Lithological character. Thickness, ft.

10. Soil and drift

9. Nodular band of lime stone

Light-coloured shales with sandy partings

7. Dark shales, with sandy I. l Q partings S

6. Finely-laminated black £.2 shales

6. Sandstone ° 1

4. Black shales, coarsely { 2 6 laminated

3. Bone-bed ° 3

3. Light buff sandy marls with hard courses bluish nodules lower part

1. Red and blue Upper I 10 Keuper Marls )

Fossils &c.

Flint implements (Neolithic), Roman pottery, &c.

Estheria (casts), Avicula con- torta.

Modiola minima, Avicula contorta, Cardium rhtxlicvm.

Opkiolepis Damesii, Pholidophorus Mottiana.

Avicula contorta, Cardium rhceticum.

Axinufi-bed. Worm-tracks. ( Qyrolepis, Saurichthys api- calis, Hybodus minor, Ceratodu*, Xemncanthut monWfer, Ichthyosaurus, PI siosaurus, Coprolites, Sargodon tomicus, Acro- dus, A.rinu8 elongafus, A. depressus.

Fi>h-soaleB, Selenite, Salt pseudomorphs.

Selenite, ' 8alt pseudomorphs.