MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12981431874).jpg 1858 <br> MTJECHISOX NORTHEEN HIGHLANDS ETC <br> 367 <br> © <br> pM <br> 1 <br> m <br> m <br> <br> ; 5 <br> 1 i ® <br> ¢ S P <br> -2 <br> <br> 0QCZ2 <br> VOL XV ...
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Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12981431874).jpg 1858 <br> MTJECHISOX NORTHEEN HIGHLANDS ETC <br> 367 <br> © <br> pM <br> 1 <br> m <br> m <br> <br> ; 5 <br> 1 i ® <br> ¢ S P <br> -2 <br> <br> 0QCZ2 <br> VOL XV PART I <br> dently referable to marine plants or <br> fucoids ; but nowhere has anyone ” <br> not even the keen-eyed Peach ” col- <br> lected a form which can be referred to <br> terrestrial vegetation The exact po- <br> sition of the SerpuUtes MaccuUochii <br> and the Fucoids as thus given is to be <br> traced over a considerable area both in <br> the environs of Assynt and ia those of <br> Loch Eribol <br> It is to be observed that the siliceous <br> courses in which anneKdes occur are <br> not to be considered a porous granular <br> quartz as stated by Macculloch but <br> as a hard compact rock which simply <br> becomes porous upon weathering when <br> the fossils are best exposed <br> Instructive sections in ascending <br> order may be made either from the <br> Kyles of Strome or from Loch Inver <br> in Sutherland The former however <br> is by far the most satisfactory because <br> by slight deviations only from the road <br> the passing traveller may satisfy him- <br> self of the truth of all the data of su- <br> perposition Quitting the rugged bosses <br> of gneiss at the Perry and ascending <br> to the summit-level of the road he <br> soon meets with layers of the chocolate - <br> coloured Cambrian sandstone which <br> sweeping down to the road from the <br> lofty precipices of Queenaig dip to the <br> W N' W at the sKght angle of 5° or 6°; <br> so nearly do the beds of that very an - <br> cient rock approach to horizontality <br> Here there is no ambiguity ; for the <br> chocolate- coloured Cambrian rock is <br> clearly superposed by sheets of the <br> compact quartz -rock which dip from <br> 20° to 25° to the S E In short no <br> unconformity can be more striking; <br> and the quartz-rock at the summit- <br> level of the road rests on the shoulders <br> The fucoid-bed and its associates were <br> traced by Mr Peach from Ledbeg near Loch <br> Awe by Stronchrubie Inchnadampf Assynt <br> Bridge of Skiag and thence towards Kyle <br> Scow and at two of these places Prof Nicol <br> and myself had previously detected it Mr <br> Peach observed them in precisely the same <br> position on the eastern shores of Loch Eribol <br> 2e 36161924 111474 51125 Page 367 Text v 15 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36161924 1859 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 15 1859 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36161924 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36161924 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-07 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12981431874 2015-08-26 14 54 07 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1859 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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