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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13935529512).jpg 360 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Mar 7 <br> e3 o <br> g <br> 6D <br> s <br> li <br> <br> 8 Aspect of the Country ” In tra- <br> versing the country between Morte- <br> hoe and Lee Bay I was again struck <br> with the exact similarity of the form <br> of ground and nature of scenery to <br> that so frequent in the Carboniferous <br> Slate country of county Cork The <br> general surface of the high ground is <br> uniform and monotonous but it is <br> cut into such numerous little dells <br> opening out into deeper ravines and <br> these into steep-sided flat-bottomed <br> valleys that it becomes picturesque <br> and beautiful The tops of the hills <br> too left standing between the ravines <br> and valleys are varied by frequent <br> little brows and ridges of slate form- <br> ing small parallel escarped terraces <br> and rocky crags and furze -covered <br> knolls while the colour and nature <br> of the soil and all the minuter fea- <br> tures of the scenery are identical in <br> both countries <br> I was hastily summoned from II- <br> fracombe on private business before <br> I could examine the calcareous bands <br> and other rocks of Combe-Martin and <br> its neighbourhood If however the <br> Lynton rocks below and the Ilfra- <br> combe and Mortehoe rocks above be <br> determined the intermediate Combe- <br> Martin beds follow as a matter of <br> course <br> 9 Probable Existence of a Great <br> East and West Fault with Downthrow <br> to tlie Northivard ” Having now laid <br> before the Society the means I have <br> had of examining the rocks and form- <br> ing an opinion upon them I have to <br> state my deliberate judgment that <br> the rocks of Lynton Ilfracombe and <br> Mortehoe are part of the same group <br> of rocks as those called the Carboni- <br> ferous Slate in Ireland and that the <br> rocks which strike from Pickwell <br> Down through Swinham Down Gar- <br> monds Down Span Head of the Ord- <br> nance map and Dulverton Common <br> to Haddon Down are the upper part <br> of the Old Red Sandstone of Ireland ; 36164801 111477 51125 Page 360 Text v 22 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164801 1866 Geological Society of London NameFound Combe NameConfirmed COMBE EOLID 12397 NameBankID 4122786 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 22 1866 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36164801 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164801 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13935529512 2015-08-26 06 53 02 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1866 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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