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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13368945333).jpg 1873 <br> JUDD THE SECONDARY KOCKS OP SCOTLAND <br> 119 <br> pq <br> s g <br> o o <br> pq <br> I <br> 'o' <br> pus <br> »5 <br> P§3- <br> g ” <br> Trans Geol Soc 2nd <br> p 354 c <br> covered with slipped masses and vege- <br> tation ; but it is evident that the con- <br> tinuity of the sandstones is completely <br> broken up and that the rocks are in <br> the condition so frequently observed at <br> their contact with the Palaeozoic strata <br> and which is well illustrated by the <br> sketch fig 3 of the rocks seen in Allt- <br> Chollie Colyburn four miles to the <br> north of Clyne Kirk At this place the <br> harder beds of the Jurassic sandstones <br> are seen for a distance of about 100 <br> yards from their junction with the Pa- <br> laeozoic rocks to be broken up into <br> fragments of various sizes which lie in <br> every possible position in the midst of <br> a mass of debris formed by the crush- <br> ing of the softer beds This appearance <br> was well described by Sir Roderick <br> Murchison at this and several other <br> points Returning to the ravine at <br> Clyne Kirk we find that at some little <br> distance from the junction with the <br> Silurian the beds of sandstone b and <br> of black argillaceous sand c are ca- <br> pable of being traced and are seen <br> to be bent into sharp folds accom- <br> panied by slight dislocations The <br> disturbance of the Jurassic beds di- <br> minishes as we remove further from <br> their junction with the Palaeozoic <br> rocks <br> Between Clyne Kirk and Braam- <br> berry Hill the Secondary strata are <br> concealed ; but they probably lie in a <br> series of long curves in some cases <br> broken across by faults as illustrated <br> by the section fig 4 which is drawn <br> to scale exposed in a bluff on the north <br> side of the river Brora where the rocks <br> consist of marine sandy clays of Middle <br> Oxfordian age At Braamberry Hill <br> the sandstone strata which overlie the <br> clays just mentioned form an anti- <br> clinal the rocks of which owing to <br> their superior hardness resisted denu- <br> dation ; and thence to Brora as seen <br> in the gorge of the river the strata <br> vol ii pt 2 pp 304 and 307; ibid pt 3 39051023 120601 51125 Page 119 Text v 29 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/39051023 1873 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 29 1873 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 39051023 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/39051023 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-24 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13368945333 2015-08-26 10 56 53 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1873 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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