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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12736355544).jpg 280 <br> J F BLAKE AND W H HTTDLESTON ON <br> Section of Oolites and Limestones at Todbere <br> ft in <br> 1 Loose soft yellow oolite marl and rubbly thin-bedded oolite <br> limestone with numerous fossils Natica sp Chemnitzia hed- <br> dingtonensis Ostrea solitaria Echinobrissus scutatus 3 <br> 2 Oolitic and shelly limestone with soft marly partings breaking <br> into thin layers fossiliferous Echinobrissus scutatus Ammonites <br> plicatilis 7 <br> 3 Solid block of blue limestone composed of comminuted shells with <br> scattered oolitic grains It is locally called ' rag-stone and is <br> used for road-mending on account of its hardness ; but it is a <br> beautiful building-stone and has been extracted as such Qhe <br> fossils all obliterated 4 <br> 4 Rubbly clay parting of insignificant thickness here but increasing <br> to 1 foot in a quarry a little to the we st where it is full of small <br> broken fossils <br> 5 Solid creamy fine-grained oolitic limestone false-bedded very <br> hard and blue in the unweathered portions weathering light <br> yellow Joints filled with calcite The best is U6ed for build- <br> ing; the rest for lime No distinguishable fossils 12 <br> 6 Not seen here but reported to be hard blue marl with small <br> stones Some of it seen by the road-side was very pisolitic and <br> contained many oysters Exogyra nana 17 <br> The last of these beds makes clear our stratigraphical horizon ; <br> and in the absence of fossils the lithology of bed No 5 may prove <br> its identity with the false-bedded series of Sturminster The higher <br> beds will be referred to again <br> A similar section to the above is seen in enormous worked- out <br> quarries a little to the west where the false-bedded series and the <br> superincumbent Haggy oolites and marls form a delightful picture <br> to the geological eye which we have attempted to pourtray fig 3 <br> Fig 3 � View of Section of False-bedded Oolites near Marnhutt <br> Further to the west again the false-bedded limestones are still <br> more largely exposed in a quarry with a 14-feet face now in work <br> where they are extremely uniform and smooth in beds from 1 foot <br> to 2 feet in thickness without apparent dip in any direction They <br> are beautiful building-stones having a fine grain and being free from <br> fossils except a single bed near the top which contains Trigonia <br> clavellata Chemitzia Jieddingtonensis Nerincea fasciata Pleuromya <br> tellina and Echinobrissus scutatus As no false-bedding is here 35818409 110705 51125 Page 280 Text 33 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818409 1877 Geological Society of London NameFound Ammonites plicatilis NameFound Chemitzia NameConfirmed Chemitzia NameBankID 4112395 NameFound Chemnitzia NameConfirmed Chemnitzia EOLID 4813168 NameBankID 2799449 NameFound Echinobrissus scutatus NameConfirmed Echinobrissus scutatus NameFound Exogyra nana NameConfirmed Exogyra nana NameFound Natica NameConfirmed Natica EOLID 58662 NameBankID 2684906 NameFound Nerincea fasciata NameConfirmed Herina fasciata Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 EOLID 1555716 NameFound Ostrea solitaria NameFound Pleuromya tellina NameConfirmed Pleuromya tellina NameFound Trigonia clavellata NameConfirmed Trigonia clavellata Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 33 1877 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35818409 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35818409 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-24 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12736355544 2015-08-26 20 00 51 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1877 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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