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VI.—The Rhætic Section at Wigston, Leicestershire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. Wilson  and
H. E. Quilter
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Although Rhætic rocks have already been noticed at one or two points in Leicestershire, viz. at Leicester by Mr. W. J. Harrison and between Barrow and Sileby by Mr. Etheridge, the complete sequence of this series has not hitherto been observed in that country. Very recently our attention has been directed to a section at Wigston, near Leicester, which exhibits, not only the whole thickness of these beds, but also clearly shows their relationship to the overlying Lias and underlying Triassic rocks, and which for an inland section must therefore be considered as quite unique in this country.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 9 , September 1884 , pp. 415 - 418
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1884

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page 416 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxii. p.212; Geol. Mag. 1874, p. 480.Google Scholar

page 417 note 1 We cannot, however, accept as correct Mr. Harrison's description of a band of septariform nodules with Estheriæ, in situ, at so little as 10 feet frum the base of the Paper Shales. No such bed is now to he seen on the Spinney Hills and no analogous bed, or Estheriæ, occur at this horizon at Wigston. The Rhætics on the Spinney Hills are capped by glacial drift. We consider that the nodules referred to by Mr. Harrison (loc. cit.) must have been displaced by glacial action from a higher level.

page 418 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxviii. p. 451.Google Scholar