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Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12684531283).jpg 1852 <br> NICOL ON THE GEOLOGY OF CANTYRE <br> 413 <br> distance from it increases The change even in the deepest beds is <br> not very great having apparently only driven off the carbonaceous <br> matter from the black shales and modified the state of oxidation of <br> the iron in the ferruginous red beds below which are at the same <br> time somewhat hardened and converted into a kind of porcellanite <br> yet the heat seems to have extended through from 20 to 30 feet of <br> conglomerate and probably twice that thickness of shales Further <br> down the stream the same black friable shales are seen in cliffs some- <br> times 60 feet or more high They are intermixed with beds of sand- <br> stone and impure coal which has been mined in several places In <br> the shales I only observed a few obscure indications of fossils <br> Fig 1 ” Section in Tirfergus Burn <br> ft in <br> Black shale becoming lighter below 1 ; <br> Grey shale slightly altered <br> Reddish-white shale <br> 3 <br> 2 6 <br> Bluish shale <br> Bluish-grey sandy shale <br> Reddish-purple shale <br> Reddish-yellow shale <br> Dark-purple shale <br> 7 <br> 7 <br> 1 <br> 1 1 <br> Greyish-brown and purple shale morel <br> than J <br> On the west coast south of Losset beds of sandstone and lime- <br> stone much altered by intrusive igneous rocks are seen in the high <br> cliffs Similar altered masses occur near Killellan and in other por- <br> tions of the tract laid down on the map as trap Before noticing <br> these we must describe the igneous rocks seen in this district with <br> which they are intimately connected <br> VOL VIII ” PART I 2 E 35461489 109911 51125 Page 413 Text v 8 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461489 1852 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 8 1852 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35461489 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461489 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12684531283 2015-08-26 20 56 04 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1852 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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