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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12645423134).jpg 1848 MOORE ON FOSSILIFEROUS BEDS OF WIGTOWNSHIRE 9 <br> Corswall Lighthouse <br> Flaggy greywacke <br> Conglomerates <br> Dally Bay <br> Shales T <br> and VCairnbrock <br> Slate- J <br> Knock Bay <br> Port Patrick <br> Morroch Bay <br> Slates and Shales <br> Graptolites <br> Graptolites <br> Mytilus <br> Pink Syenite <br> Cairngarroch <br> Grennan Slates <br> Granite ˘ <br> Mull of Galloway <br> Graptolites <br> used for any but the poorer <br> farm-houses I have thought <br> this granite worth mentioning <br> as I am not aware that any has <br> been described as occurring be- <br> tween that of Cairnsmuir on the <br> Cree in Kirkcudbrightshire and <br> that of the Mome Mountains in <br> County Down <br> From the bay of Drumore to <br> the Grennan a distance of one <br> mile and a half a mass of slates <br> which have been used for roofing <br> purposes dips to the north at a <br> high angle ; and after passing a <br> great mass of syenite at Cairn- <br> garroch which has altered the <br> neighbouring rocks and invaded <br> them in the form of dykes we <br> arrive at the Morroch Bay one <br> mile and a half south from Port <br> Patrick ; here a thick mass of <br> shales black red and grey in <br> a vertical position occurs inter- <br> stratified with syenite and red <br> earthy trap the black shales are <br> in some places full of grapto- <br> lites ; they are remarkably fissile <br> splitting readily as thin as a card <br> and their surfaces are marked by <br> minute specks of iron pyi'ites <br> The red shales are similar to <br> them in every respect except in <br> colour and in not containing <br> fossils ” differences probably due <br> to their greater proximity to the <br> trap Proceeding thence to the <br> north beyond Port Patrick after <br> passing much greywacke so in- <br> terfered with by a dark serpen- <br> tinous trap as scarce to present <br> a trace of stratification we arrive <br> at the bay of Porto Bello near <br> Cairnbrock where there is a con- <br> siderable thickness of slaty shales <br> and flags containing graptolites <br> and what appears to be the cast <br> of a Mytilus These beds dip to <br> the south at a high angle About <br> a mile and a half further north 35268641 109512 51125 Page 9 Text v 5 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35268641 1849 Geological Society of London NameFound Graptolites NameConfirmed Graptolites NameBankID 423327 NameFound Mytilus NameConfirmed Mytilus EOLID 10719786 NameBankID 2692124 NameFound Shales Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 5 1849 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35268641 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35268641 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-20 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12645423134 2015-08-27 10 53 42 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1849 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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