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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13071116235).jpg 584 <br> PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY <br> 1 <br> C <br> <br> CM <br> h <br> Stockland Bristol the upper New <br> Eed Sandstone covers still higher <br> sandstones resembling the Morte-Bay <br> and Pickwell-Down beds I am not <br> justified in asserting though I see <br> no reason why it should not occur <br> Similar arguments may be used re- <br> lative to the connexion of the western <br> side of the Quantock Hills with the <br> eastern portion of the Exmoor range <br> at Croydon and Brendon Hills which <br> are separated by the narrow valley <br> composed of the Lower New Red Sand- <br> stone and Dolomitic Conglomerates <br> of considerable thickness which <br> extends to Carhampton Dunster <br> Watchet and Minehead but which <br> is separated from the deep valley of <br> Luckham and Porlock by an isthmus <br> of Old Sed Sandstone connecting <br> Croydon Hill and Dunster Park with <br> Grabbist Hill and North Hill over <br> Minehead These two valleys con- <br> tinuous in direction though discon- <br> nected at Higher Kitswell appear to <br> occupy the line of a great fault or <br> they are in a trough or synclinal <br> basin ; the Great St -Decumans and <br> parallel faults at Watchet Quan- <br> tock Head and Little Stoke which <br> extend for fourteen miles are trace- <br> able by the depression of the Porlock <br> valley and the reversed dips of the <br> rocks into it This line also corre- <br> sponds with the anticlinal of the valley <br> of the East Lynn south of the <br> Foreland and the high coast-land <br> from Porlock the beds comprising <br> the structure of which all dip con- <br> tinuously north north of the anticli- <br> nal from 20° to 40° to Culbone Glen- <br> thorne and on to Porlock thence <br> through North Hill to Minehead <br> south of the anticlinal or the gorge <br> of the East Lynn from Lynton to <br> Lucott Hill Stoke Pero and Timbers- <br> combe south-feast of Dunster The <br> grits sandstones slates and lime- <br> stones of the whole of North Devon <br> and West Somerset have one uni- 36345347 112028 51125 Page 584 Text v 23 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36345347 1867 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 23 1867 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36345347 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36345347 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 N02/13071116235 2015-08-26 13 52 19 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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