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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12512038133).jpg SEDGWICK ON THE MAY HILL SANDSTONE <br> 217 <br> through them During a short visit to this locahty in the month of <br> September I met my friend John Ruthven who had been some time <br> employed upon the task to which I have before alluded ; and I found <br> that he had already discovered some good characteristic Coniston <br> corals and shells among the watercourses near the top of the pass <br> We then examined together some broken ground which has now been <br> cleared of wood ; and in several places especially near a farm called <br> Bowerbank we had access to the bare rock which contained well- <br> known fossils such as the Trinucleus Caractaci c of the Coniston <br> limestone and calcareous slates The evidence was therefore now <br> complete <br> Fig 2 <br> Crag <br> Fault <br> 1 Coniston limestone and shale <br> 2 Coniston flags <br> 3 Coniston grits <br> 4 Ireleth slates Wenlock <br> 5 Upper beds of the Great Scar limestone <br> 6 Limestone and shale in alternations <br> 7- Millstone grit series <br> The facts here stated may seem too trifling to deserve notice <br> They show however how true in this part of England nature <br> continues to her own type ; and they partially help to fill up by a <br> good symmetrical section that interval of ten miles above mentioned <br> between Helm's Gill and Thornton Beck In the lower parts of <br> Barbondale it would be in vain to look for the Coniston beds because <br> unequivocally newer beds about the age of the Wenlock shale are <br> by the great flexures of Middleton Fells made to abut against the <br> line of fault By a great reversed dip the Coniston grits are how- <br> ever again brought out on Casterton Low Fell ; and I think it just <br> possible that in the deep water-course on the south side of that Fell <br> the Coniston beds may be hereafter discovered <br> So far as I could make out from a very obscure section the lowest <br> group No 1 is of very considerable thickness and is made up of <br> dark shaly beds containing many bands so calcareous as almost to <br> pass into limestone Whether there may exist any well-defined bed <br> of limestone near the base of this group as at Coniston it is im- <br> possible to tell ; but the calcareous slates just noticed seem to en- <br> croach upon the Coniston flags No 2 of this section which at the <br> point here described do not seem to be more than 400 or 500 feet <br> in thickness <br> Near Coniston the flags are I think full three times the thickness here <br> given 34983330 108767 51125 Page 217 Text v 9 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/34983330 1853 Geological Society of London NameFound Trinucleus NameConfirmed Trinucleus EOLID 4324924 NameBankID 2875667 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 9 1853 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 34983330 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/34983330 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-14 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12512038133 2015-08-27 09 51 08 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1853 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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