Note on some recent Openings in the Liassic and Oolitic Rocks of Fawler in Oxfordshire, and on the Arrangement of those Rocks near Charlbury

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This account was written to bring before the notice of practical geologists some new sections on the works of Messrs. Bolton and Partners, at lawler. The district treated of lies in quarter-sheet 45 S.W. of the Survey Map, and was described by Prof. Hull in his accompanying memoir, 1859, to which nothing was added by Prof. Green in his memoir, 1864. Accurate description rather than speculation has been aimed at; still, as some alteration seems necessary, its probable lines are suggested from personal examination of the neighbourhood. The Evenlode valley exposes Liassic rocks to about ¾ mile below Pawler, where Great Oolite is brought down by a fault. Since the locality is well known, I proceed to describe the sections in ascending order. The cores of the boring were not preserved; they were, I am told, of the same character throughout. The line of junction of beds є and ζ is 14 ft. above the bed of the river. Section B, in a coombe across the road N.E. of the brickyard, clearly marked on the map by a branching-off of the Lias and Inferior Oolite into the Great Oolite plateau. A deserted opening extends S.W. by N.E., along the north side of this coombe for nearly 200 yards. The strata here are so variable in thickness that no definite section can be given. The lowest is marlstone rock-bed δ, varying from 8 to 10 ft., but in one part so displaced that it appears in vertical section 12 ft. thick.

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