Joseph Beete Jukes

“ In the bottom part of the marls occur local beds of sandstone some feet in thickness, sometimes brown, sometimes yellow or white, containing few or no pebbles, generally rather shaly, and not often marked by oblique lamination. The marls are likewise generally shaly, and are sometimes slightly arenaccous, especially in the lower beds. Like all marls, they, when dry, frequently crumble into small cuboidal fragments. ”

“ On the west the beds strike in a narrow strip from the Birmingham and Gloucester railway to Hagley, and elsewhere, interruptedly and broken by faults, from the neighbourhood of Stone in Worcestershire to Tettenhall near Wolverhampton. A patch about 5 miles in length also occurs west of Cannock, between Cross Green and Manstey Wood. Good sections may be seen in a cutting of the Birmingham and Gloucester railway, south of Blackwell station, in the new cemetery at Birmingham, in the road cuttings about Tettenhall and Compton near Wolverhampton and at other places marked by arrows on the map. ”

“ This accordingly has been done from the south end of the Malvern hills to Lancashire and Nottinghamshire, and the sub-formations have been found always to maintain the same order of superposition, although occasionally one or more members may be absent. In general they are easily distinguishable from each other, except when the Upper and Lower Red and Mottled sandstones chance to be brought together by faults. ”