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Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Geological Society of London
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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heBone-Bed from the Tea-Green Marls of the Upper Keuper, isa deposit of Black Shale 2 feet thick. The line of junction ofthe shale with the Keuper Marl may be described as sharplydefined, and only very rarely is there an extremely-thin deposit ofarenaceous matter intervening between the two formations. AtNorton, about 1^- miles to the south-east by east of Wainlode, thereis a section in a lane-cutting 300 yards north-east of the church,in which the Bone-Bed is seen as a stratum 15 inches thick,with a few fish-remains and an occasional small quartz-pebble.Black Shales, with a thickness of 16 inches, separate this bedfrom the * Tea-Green Marls: the line of demarcation betweenthe two being again sharply defined. 1 Vol. xiv (1903) pp. 127-74, 251-56. 2 Geol. Mag. 1903, pp. 80-82. Fiar. 1. 4 ^Droitwi Map to show the relationship of the anticlinal & synclinal flexures noticed in this paper, to those of which there is evidence in the Inferior-Oolite Series. Worcester K E U P E R Alcester
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