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Sections of Permian or Upper Carboniferous Strata in the North-west of England.

1. Bispham.

2. Sutton.

3. Edge Green.

4. Aye Bridge.

5. West Leigh.

5. Bunter.

Soft, bright sandstone (base of Trias.)

Red sandstone with pebbles, 95 feet.

4. Red, brown, and grey sandstones, &c.

3. Red and variegated marls, limestones, &c.

Red and purple shales with thin layers of limestone, 30 feet thick.

"The representative of the Magnesian Limestone of the east of England."

"May have formed a part of the Magnesian Limestones of Stank, Barrowmouth, and other placesin the north."

E. Binney.

Purple and mottled marls with thin limestones, 30 feet. "Mr. Binney found Permian fossils in the limestones."

Red sandstones and marls, 70 feet.

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1. Red metal ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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1. Grits and metals ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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1. Red sandstone, and metal ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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1. Hard siliceous rock ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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"the sandstones are soft, reddish, and greenish, and sometimes conglomeratic at the base."

Red marls, 39 feet.

2. Sandstones, green and grey rocks, breccias, &c.

Brown, and red sandstone, 100 feet, with spar veins.

"The representative of the Lower Permian Sandstone of the central counties."

E. Hull.

Conglomerate, red sandstones, soft, fine-grained and streaked, 90 feet.

Fossils found—Schizodus Bukewelli and Turbo.

Hard bur rock, red and variegated sandstone, 109 feet.

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1. Red sandstone ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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1. Red sandstones and shales. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Conglomerate-like gravel, 1 foot, supposed by Mr. Binney to be the conglomerate which immediately underlies the red marls.

Black sands, 13 feet.

Red Sandstone, 31 feet.

Calamites, Sigillaria, and fossil wood lay in the debris of this sandstone.

1. Upper Coal-measures.

E. Binney and E. Hull, 'Geology of the Country around Wigan,' p. 27.

Hull & Binney, 'Geology of the Country around Prescot.' p. 14; 'Geol. C. ar. Wigan.' p. 28.

E. Hull.

E. Hull, Geology of the Country around Bolton, p. 18.

E. Hull. ibid. pp. 19, 20.