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20
D. C. DAVIES ON THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS

Sections (continued).

6. Peel Hall. 7. Snedley Print-works. 8. Collyhurst. 9. Dawson's Croft,
Salford.
10. Albert Bridge,
Salford.
5. Bunter.
Soft red sandstones with rounded pebbles of quartz, 139 feet.
Red and streaked sandstone, 180 feet.
Red sandstone, 470 feet.
4. Red, brown, and grey sandstones, &c.
3. Red and variegated marls, limestones, &c.
Red marls with 52 beds of limestone, 131 feet.

ft.in.

  1. Tough red marl
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    80
  1. Hard, red, sandy clay.
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    06
  1. Red clay, gritty sandstone and soft grey rock
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    60
  1. Red clay and beds off limestone
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    440
  1. Red clay
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    40
  1. Hard white rock
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    20
  1. Red clay with bands of limestone
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    630
Red marls with 4 thin beds of limestone, 210 feet.
Red marls with limestones, 120 feet.
Red sandstones and clays in alternate beds.
2. Sandstones, green and grey rocks, breccias, &c.
Red sandstones, 150 feet.

ft.in.

  1. White rock
    ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
    06
  1. Red sandstone with beds of raddle
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    116
  1. Bluish-white rather soft stone
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    06
Sandstones &c., 240 feet, have expanded from 11 ft. 6 in. at Snedley, 2 miles off.
Soft bright red sandstone, not passed through.
Hard sandstone, not passed through.
1. Upper Coal-measures.
Clay and shale containing coal-plants.
E. Hull, 'Geology of the Country around Bolton, pp. 19, 20.
Mr. Binney's section, per E. Hull, ibid.
E. Hull, ibid.
E. Hull, ibid.
E. Hull, ibid.