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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12684551014).jpg 44 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DeC 3 <br> A great spur of the Scar Limestone runs down from Whernside to <br> the scar above Twisleton forming the separation between Chapel le <br> Dale and Kingsdale The Thornton section fig 3 begins at the <br> Fig 3 ” Section from Ingleton to Thornton Force <br> Distance about 2 miles N <br> 4' Carboniferous grits <br> 6 Great Scar-limestone <br> 7 Old Red the thickness of this calcareous conglomerate is exaggerated in this Section <br> d Calcareous slate here and there passing into concretionary limestone Coniston limestone <br> e Greenish slates alternating with very hard greenish-grey beds of gritstone provinc Calliard <br> Chloritic Slates of Cumberland and Westmoreland underlying the Coniston limestone <br> N N E <br> Fig 4 ” Section from Twisleton Scar to <br> Distance about 3 miles <br> Slate <br> quarry <br> Trap-dykes <br> JOV Wj»M - <br> s s w <br> Black Burton <br> Coal-field <br> 4' Carboniferous grits <br> 6 Great Scar-limestone <br> 7 Old Red Conglomerate <br> d Calcareous slate with Orthis Actonice c as in fig 3 penetrated by two veins of felspathic <br> rock much exaggerated in the Section <br> e Greenish slate as in fig 3 <br> foot of Kingsdale crosses the Craven fault and then passes over the <br> dislocated limestone to the beds which are prolonged into the Black <br> Burton coal-field The Ingleton Beck section fig 4 crosses the <br> same groups of strata ; and if pictorially represented would show a <br> deep gorge cutting through the slate-quarries In fact the section <br> descends from the great Scar Limestone to the slate-quarries on the <br> west side of the rivulet ; but the quarries cross the rivulet and the <br> section is then taken up at about a hundred yards distance on the <br> opposite side and so taken down to Ingleton on a nearly parallel <br> line There is however no ambiguity whatsoever in the order of <br> superposition which is correctly given in the section fig 4 The <br> dips are the same in the two sections under notice but they are <br> represented as they are seen in nature from opposite points of view <br> 1 At the north end of the two sections the Scar-hmestone is <br> nearly horizontal and the upper surface of the slate groups has been <br> worn down to a nearly horizontal surface <br> The mean dip being about S W or S W by S and at a great angle 35461036 109911 51125 Page 44 Text v 8 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461036 1852 Geological Society of London NameFound Orthis NameConfirmed Orthis EOLID 4333134 NameBankID 4270859 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 8 1852 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35461036 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461036 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 N02/12684551014 2015-08-27 12 51 44 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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