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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12961101575).jpg s form <br> the main portion of the coast-range Even in Hongkong itself an <br> attentive examination discovers these slate rocks but entangled <br> with at least two series of plutonic rocks ” one granitic the other <br> trachytic and both evidently posterior to the sedimentary rocks <br> Near Soochow likewise in the Modo valley spoken of above a mass <br> of reddish granite rises from the midst of the lower shales towards <br> the axis of which the surrounding strata dip <br> Pig 2 - <br> S S E <br> White Deer Wu-lao-feng The Lu-Shan <br> Grotto ž 4 500feet\ 5040 feet <br> Section of the Kiuhiang district Kiangsu <br> Scale 6 miles to 1 inch <br> Tien Chi <br> Pagoda <br> N N W <br> Fossils <br> Granite <br> Tungting G-rits <br> Lime- <br> stones <br> 1 Quartzites 2 Soft shales and schists <br> a Soft schists converted into mica-schist and gneiss <br> b Limestone overlain by the Kiukiang laterite with a base of coarse till con- <br> taining small boulders <br> At the Lu-shan the subsequent origin of the igneous rocks is also <br> well displayed in the conversion of a portion of the superincumbent <br> shales into mica-schist and gneiss ; in Lower Kiangsu likewise the <br> detached hills which appear over the surface of the alluvial plain are <br> composed of the remains of these quartzites preserved from the de- <br> nudation which destroyed the other portions of the series by the <br> hardening effect of the intrusion of a series of porphyritic dykes <br> having a general direction from W S W to E N E <br> Lying as above stated conformably over the Tungting grits is a <br> great mass of limestone containing near its base in the central pro- <br> vinces at least a mass of shales of no great thickness producing coal <br> and iron Throughout the valley of the Yangtse from the Taihu in <br> Kiangsu westwards to the province of Hupeh I have traced the lower <br> bed No 4 of the series This bed where exposed is rendered very <br> conspicuous from projecting nodules of black chert jutting out far <br> beyond the water-worn and often honeycombed limestone matrix ; <br> in fact one of the chief features of the series in the provinces of <br> Kwangtung and Kwangsi is the extraordinary extent to which the <br> solvent power of water has acted on the rock In the valley of the 36102967 111288 51125 Page 122 Text v 25 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36102967 1869 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 25 1869 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36102967 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36102967 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-06 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12961101575 2015-08-26 15 52 54 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1869 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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