On the Lias Outliers at Knowle and Wootton Warwen in South Warwickshire, and on the Presence of the Lias or Rhætic Bone-bed at Copt Heath, its furthest Northern Extension hitherto recognized in that County

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T he Liassic outlier at Copt Heath, near Knowle, eleven miles south-east of Birmingham, has been referred to in the ‘Geological Transactions’ by my lamented friend, the late Hugh E. Strickland, and it was first noticed by my friend Dr. Lloyd; but it does not appear that any particular account has been given either of the one near Knowle or of the others in the neighbourhood of Wootton Warwen, which are, however, of sufficient interest to deserve a more detailed report. The outlier at Knowle is of limited extent, being about a mile and a half in length and half a mile broad. It occurs in the midst of the Red Marl, by which it is surrounded on all sides. A few bands of limestone are seen cropping out on the side of the canal; but the main mass is quarried by a shaft, so that the order of succession is not very easy to be traced; and as the works did not pay, they have been again closed, though a quantity of stone was raised in 1857. Judging from the blocks of stone and shale still remaining, they seem to represent the Saurian beds; and the presence of beautifully preserved specimens of Ammonites planorbis confirms this. Some of the masses of limestone are of large size, and contain remains of Saurians, scales of Fish, Ostrea, Modiola, Cardium , and a few other shells; the black laminated shales yield, besides the A. planorbis , a small Pecten and plates of a Cidaris . It

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