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.
