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Peebles Quarry Hill section.
11 ft fire clay and irregular lenticles of SS,
2 ft 6 in dark arenaceous shale.
1 ft black bituminous shale + coal,
9 ft
interval covered
2 ft
fire clay
5 ft 6 in quality rather fine grained SS limit
3 ft 10 in Wavely freestones.
trough
13 ft chiefly covered.
{occasionally. Faunus at top?
22 ft {SS, thin SS, shale layers and thin clay shales,
3 ft 9 in thiner SS and shaly SS, Faunus?
16 ft massive sandstone, rather thick layers
16 ft similar massive SS but weathered softer.
19 ft sandstone and considerable
42 ft to 75 ft
mole weathering shale,
25 ft covered, partly weathering shale in
part as in underlying beds.
39 ft 6 in freest one weathering shale in part. Hyde
called spongey 6 ft silver tip,
120 ft. 43 ft., freestone set in weathering in front
37 ft 6 in freest no section to shaly stuff
11 ft shaly freestone with a few and free
at one corners near top.
42 ft 6 in covered.
44 ft brownish more arenaceous shale
50 ft this part of shale worked by Peebles,
base of green tree
73 ft 6 in blue shale also gathered by Peebles G.
limit exposure at switch is pretty.
= about 4 miles up the river, from Portsmouth, up gully between 2 hill angles quarried for shale,
22 ft {marked at top: glass sand.
{strongly cross bedded ripple
white quartzite massive SS,
3 ft 6 in interval
In this section all the Wavely grades are freestones and not coarse enough to be called sandstones.