IV.—The Lower Pliensbachian— ‘Carixian’—of Charmouth

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The Green Ammonite Beds of the Lias (called also the Wear Cliff Beds in the latest Survey publication on Lyme Regis) include the clays with occasional limestones that lie between the Belemnite Stone below and the lowest of the Three Tiers above. The lowest Tier contains ammonites of the margaritatus group, and the Belemnite Stone caps the top beds of the Belemnite Marls that may be placed in the ibex-valdani zone. So the Green Ammonite Beds may be said to constitute the upper part of such of the Pliensbachian or Charmouthian as lies below the Domerian. Buekman has applied the term ‘Charmouthian’ to this lower portion, thus restricting the term to a part only of what it originally included. I have already advocated the propriety of applying the term Charmouthian strictly with its original connotation, and would call those zones of it that lie below the Domerian,—Bonarelli's ‘Charmoutiano inferiore’—which certainly need an inclusive name, Carixian. The fullest published accounts of the Green Ammonite Beds are those in the Survey Memoirs, and may be summarized as follows: They extend from Black Ven on the west to Seatown on the east; traces only appear on Black Ven; the complete series occurs on Stonebarrow, though there “only the lower portion is well-exposed”; their thickness is about 100 feet, though variable, and as much as 125 feet to the east of Golden Cap; they consist of marly clays with ‘ferruginous bands’ and nodular limestones.

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