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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13365298184).jpg 1849 <br> NICOL ON THE SOUTH-EAST OF SCOTLAND <br> 59 <br> In his Note on the most ancient systems of mountains in Europe <br> M Elie de Beaumont includes the southern mountains of Scotland <br> in his Westmoreland and Hundsriick system though with some hesi- <br> tation from uncertainty as to the age of the strata and their mean <br> direction The former difficulty may now be regarded as removed <br> by the fossils collected by Mr Moore and myself in such distant parts <br> of the chain and it thus seems worth while to inquire how far the <br> general direction of the beds coincides with that which he assigns to <br> this system Among a large number of observations in Peebles-shire <br> and the neighbouring counties only sixty-six were sufficiently precise <br> to be used for this purpose With two exceptions probably acci- <br> dental the whole of these fall in an arc of 65° or little more than <br> one-third the circle Thirty-five or more than a half dip to the north <br> thirteen or one-fifth are'vertical and the remainder eighteen in number <br> dip south as shown in fig 1 in which the Roman numerals mark the <br> number of beds when more than one corresponding to each line The <br> mean of the whole is E 35° 10' N or about 9° north of the mag- <br> netic east According to M E de Beaumont's calculation the di- <br> rection of the system to which he refers this chain is in this place <br> Fig 1 ” Direction of Silurian Strata in the South-East of Scotland <br> Bulletin de la Soc Geol de France torn iv p 917 36933876 113689 51125 Page 59 Text v 6 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36933876 1850 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 6 1850 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36933876 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36933876 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-23 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13365298184 2015-08-26 12 01 47 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1850 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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