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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12893937954).jpg 280 <br> ME F R COWPER REED OX THE RED ROCKS May 1 897 <br> the inner angle of the bay hides the actual line of contact of the red <br> beds with the neighbouring igneous rocks but within a yard or so <br> of the disappearance of the red beds we find a coarse so-called ' green- <br> stone-ash ' cropping out here and there A great pillar of this ash <br> stands out on the beach some 20 or 30 yards from the foot of the <br> slope as an isolated mass right in the strike of the red beds of the <br> cliff-wall of the headland and thus it is evident that a line of fault <br> separates them A volcanic ' neck ' filled with a felsitic agglomerate <br> and a pink felsite runs up the cliffs almost vertically just on the <br> west side of the grass slope and cuts across the ' greenstone-ash ' <br> and a greenish felsite There are no fragments of the red beds <br> either in the ' greenstone-ash ' or in the felsitic agglomerate of the <br> neck their absence indicating that both these igneous rocks are older <br> than the red beds <br> Pig 7 ” Ground-plan of foreshore on E side of Kennedy's Island <br> Bunmalion Head <br> I ” Greenish ash crushed along line of fault with intrusive dykes <br> R S C Red sandstones and conglomerates with thin red shaly bands <br> F Fault <br> Passing round to the eastern side of Kennedy's Island and <br> descending again to the beach by the zigzag path at the western <br> corner of this eastern bay we find here again the ' greenstone-ash ' <br> in the cliffs in contact with the red beds and their line of junction <br> may be most distinctly followed on the foreshore and over the reefs <br> of rock where successive beds of red sandstone and conglomerate <br> are seen to end abruptly against the ' greenstone-ash ' and igneous <br> masses which are somewhat crushed and shattered along the con- <br> tact This is most clearly another faulted junction and the line of <br> dislocation runs out to sea with a slightly sinuous course to the <br> E N E see fig 7 The red beds here in the cliffs which form the <br> eastern side of the headland dip north-west at 75° to 80° By the 36029065 111130 51125 Page 280 Text 53 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36029065 1897 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 53 1897 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36029065 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36029065 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-03 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12893937954 2015-08-26 17 54 53 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1897 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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