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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13071246933).jpg is nowhere from the Quantock Hills on the <br> east to the Eoreland on the west seen in its entire thickness neither <br> the base nor upper portions being clearly visible The anticlinal in <br> the Valley of the Ljnin nowhere along its line of elevation dis- <br> closes this being concealed either by the overlying Lower De- <br> vonian slates which are conformable to its southern dip after <br> crossing the anticlinal or by faulting along the course of the anti- <br> clinal also <br> 2 That the great series of red and grey sandstone and grits con- <br> stituting the base of all the North Devon and West Somerset <br> deposits is the oldest of the Palaeozoic series exposed in that area <br> and that its mass is greatest from Dunster and Wooton Courtney <br> on the south to the northern and precipitous escarpment of North <br> Hill on the north overhanging the Bristol Channel where it is <br> believed we have higher beds than are exposed along the Porlock <br> Culbone and Poreland range An extensive fault and undulation <br> of the strata along North Hill as exhibited at Hurlstone and Green - <br> lay Points may however modify this apparent thickness though <br> the strike of the beds seaward and north of the Poreland series <br> would indicate the position of higher beds <br> 3 The dip is much greater on the northern side of the anticlinal <br> than on the southern a mean of fourteen observations along the <br> strike for 13 miles determining it to be 34° and the beds are much <br> more disturbed No organic remains are known to occur in these <br> Lower Bed Sandstones 36345363 112028 51125 Page 600 Text v 23 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36345363 1867 Geological Society of London NameFound Brachiopoda NameConfirmed Brachiopoda EOLID 1498 NameBankID 230460 NameFound Coelenterata NameConfirmed Coelenterata EOLID 1745 NameBankID 9716364 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 23 1867 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36345363 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36345363 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-10 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13071246933 2015-08-26 13 52 33 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1867 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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