 | John Wesley Judd - 1875 - 366 pages
...*&»tth"Midland they are traced northwards and eastwards, assume sandy characters district. anc| exhihit evidence of having been deposited under more littoral...a calcareous rock, as at Thorpe Mandeville, Stowe, &c., but in the northern part of the county, especially in the neighbourhood of Northampton, Pitsford,... | |
 | Geologists' Association - 1891 - 596 pages
...Oolite. Thus it has arisen that under the term ' Northampton Sand' is included, in North Oxfordshire, the whole mass of variable sandy strata (passing at...limestones of the Upper Zone of the Great Oolite." Such an essentially provisional arrangement may suit in some places, but at Chipping Norton it is certainly... | |
| |
... few inches in thickness. It has consequently been found impracticable in this district to draw a line of boundary between the representatives of the Great and Inferior Oolite. Thus it has arisen that under the term " Northampton Sand " are included,... 