The Geology of the Country around Kenilworth, Warwickshire

I. Introduction And Previous Literature The area described in this paper extends from Coventry to Warwick, and comprises the Warwickshire quarter-sheets 33 (N.W., N.E., & S.W.), 26 (all four maps), and nearly half of 25 N.E. These have been geologically mapped by myself, while the description also includes sheets 21 S.E. & 21 S.W., and a portion of 20 S.E., areas which were investigated by the officers of the Geological Survey in preparing the map and memoir of the Coventry district [27]. The strip of country dealt with contains, therefore, the southern termination of the barren Upper Coal Measures (Permian of the older maps) which rest on the Productive Middle Coal Measures to the north, and pitch deeper continuously until they are overlaid by Keuper Sandstone. Some inliers of ‘Permian’ south of the main outcrop are also included in the country described. The only maps that previously showed the geology of this area were the Old Series maps LIV N.E. & LIII N.W., surveyed by H. H. Howell & A. C. Ramsay, and first published in 1850. No memoir descriptive of these sheets was written; and only very scanty information is contained in Howell's Memoir of the Warwickshire Coalfield [2], or in Hull's description of the Permian and Triassic Rocks of the Midlands [7]. Occasional papers have appeared describing the scarce fossils found in the ‘Permian’ and Trias of the area, and in this respect the early work of P. B. Brodie [4, 5, 8], G. Lloyd [1], and T.