. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. SHELVE INLIER 28 55. Fig. 35 Geological map of the area between Church Stoke and Todleth Hill, in the SW corner of the Shelve Inlier. 9=Weston Member; 14 = Aldress Member; 15 = Hagley Volcanic Member; 16 = Hagley Shale Member; horizontally shaded outcrop A^andestic intrusion of Todleth Hill. (SO 29) 318-319) noted the rocks as 'Whittery Ash' and listed them in a stratigraphical table. They cited Whittery Quarry and Walk Mill Quarry (presumably the quarry c. 450 ft (137 m) SE of Walkmill; Fig. 33, p. 52) as being places where the beds
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. SHELVE INLIER 28 55. Fig. 35 Geological map of the area between Church Stoke and Todleth Hill, in the SW corner of the Shelve Inlier. 9=Weston Member; 14 = Aldress Member; 15 = Hagley Volcanic Member; 16 = Hagley Shale Member; horizontally shaded outcrop A^andestic intrusion of Todleth Hill. (SO 29) 318-319) noted the rocks as 'Whittery Ash' and listed them in a stratigraphical table. They cited Whittery Quarry and Walk Mill Quarry (presumably the quarry c. 450 ft (137 m) SE of Walkmill; Fig. 33, p. 52) as being places where the beds were 'splendidly exposed'. The volcanics were said to consist of'andesitic and rhyolitic breccias and conglomerates, fine ashes with curious spherulitic or pisolitic structures, and bands of shale often fossiliferous'. Beds showing ripple markings were also recorded. Whittard (1931 : 333) stated merely 'The Whittery Volcanic Group repeats the general litho- logical and petrological characters shown by the rocks of the Hagley Volcanic Group'; later (1952: 164) he noted the rocks only briefly and gave the thickness as 300 ft (91-5 m). Subse- quently (1960 : 283) he described them briefly as 'crystal and lithic tuffs, agglomerates and breccias with thin interbedded shales. Thickness 300 ft.' The northernmost outcrops of the Whittery Volcanic Member occur in the vicinity of Wotherton (Fig. 34, p. 53), where part of the outcrop is faulted against the Hagley Shale Member to the east and the beds, which dip 40° bearing 280° true, were once quarried at Rock Coppice (Loc. 296). The nature of the junction between the Whittery Volcanic and Shale Members at this locality is noted in more detail under the description of the latter Member. Of particular interest in this district is the outcrop 500 ft (152 m) SW of the house called Rockabank, 2250 ft (686 m) south of Wotherton (Fig. 34). At this point (Loc. 295) there occurs what Whittard described as an 'amazing development' of volcanic a
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