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BUNTING (a word of doubtful origin, possibly connected with bunt, to sift, or with the Ger. bunt, of varied colour)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 802 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
BUNTING (a word of doubtful origin, possibly connected with bunt, to sift, or with the Ger. bunt, of varied colour) , a loosely woven. woollen cloth for making flags; the term is also used of a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship.
of this subdivision is made up of weakly-cemented, coarse-grained sandstones, oblique lamination is very prevalent, and occasional conglomeratic beds make their
appearance
 . The uppermost bed is usually fine-grained and bears the footprints of Cheirotherium. In the Vosges
district
 , this subdivision of the Bunter is called the Gres des Vosges, or the Gres principal, which comprises: (i.) red micaceous and argillaceous sandstone; (ii.) the conglomirat principal; and (iii.) Gres bigarre principal (=gres des Vosges, properly so-called). (3) Lower Buntsandstein, fine-grained clayey and micaceous sand-stones, red-grey, yellow, white and mottled. The cement of the sandstones is often felspathic; for this reason they yield useful
porcelain
  clays in the Thuringerwald. Clay
galls
  are common in the sandstones of some districts, and in the neighbourhood of the Harz an oolitic calcareous sandstone, Rogenstein, occurs. In eastern Hesse, the lowest beds are crumbly, shaly clays, Brockelschiefern.
The following are the subdivisions usually adopted in England :--(1) Upper Mottled Sandstone, red variegated sandstones, soft and generally free from pebbles. (2) Bunter Pebble Beds, harder red and brown sandstones with quartzose pebbles, very abundant in some places. (3) Lower Mottled Sandstone, very similar to the upper division. The Bunter beds occupy a large area in the midland counties where they form dry, healthy ground of moderate
elevation
  (Cannock Chase, Trentham, Sherwood Forest, Sutton Coldfield, &c.). Southward they may be followed through west Somerset to the cliffs of Budleigh Salterton in Devon; while northward they pass through north Staffordshire, Cheshire and Lancashire to the Vale of Eden and St Bees, reappearing in
Elgin
  and Arran. A de-posit of these rocks lies in the Vale of Clwyd and probably flanks the eastern side of the Pennine Hills, although here it is not so readily differentiated from the Keuper beds. The English Bunter rests with a slight unconformity upon the older formations. It is generally absent in the
south
 -eastern counties, but thickens rapidly in the opposite direction, as is shown by the following table:
Lancashire and Leicestershire and
W. Cheshire. Staffordshire. Warwickshire.
(1) Soo ft. 50-200 ft. Absent
(2) 500-750 ft. 100.300 ft. 0-100 ft.
(3) 200-500 ft. 0-100 ft. Absent
The material forming the Bunter beds of England came probably from the north-west, but in Devonshire there are indications which point to an additional source.
In the Alpine region, most of the Trias differs markedly from that of England and northern Germany, being of distinctly marine origin; here the Bunter is represented by the Werfen beds (from Werfen in Salzburg) in the northern Alps, a
series
  of red and greenish-grey micaceous shales with gypsum, rock salt and limestones in the upper part; while in the southern Alps (S. Tirol) there is an upper
series
  of red clays, the Campil beds, and a lower series of thin sand-stones, the Seis beds. Mojsisovics von Mojsvar has pointed out that the Alpine Bunter belongs to the single zone of Natica costata and Tirolites cassianus.
Fossils in the Bunter are very scarce; in addition to the footprints of Cheirotherium, direct evidence of .amphibians is found in such forms as Trematosaurus and Mastodonsaurus. Myophoria costata and Gervillea Murchisoni are characteristic fossils. Plants are represented by Voltzia and by equisetums
and ferns.
In England, the Bunter sandstones frequently act as valuable
reservoirs of underground water; sometimes they are used for building stone or for foundry sand. In Germany some of the harder beds have yielded building stones, which were much used in the middle ages in the construction of cathedrals and castles in southern Germany and on the Rhine. In the northern
Eifel
  region, at Mechernich and elsewhere, this formation contains lead ore in the form of spots and patches (Knotenerz) in the sandstone; some of the lead ore was worked by the Romans.
For a consideration of the relationship of the Bunter beds to formations of the like age in other parts of the world, see TRIASSIC SYSTEM. (J. A. H.)


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