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MR. E. W. BINNEY ON THE PERMIAN BEDS 



limestone is quarried. It is of a cream colour, and partly crys- 

 talline. The dip, if any, is to the north-east, but it lies nearly 

 level. Probably 30 feet in thickness of the limestone may 

 be exposed. In it I found portions of a large Producta, a 

 Cyathophyllum, and some crinoidal stems. Between the 

 breccia and the mountain limestone is a fault, running from 

 south-east to north-west, and this dislocation may have altered 

 the inclination of the former rock, and thus caused it to appear 

 to dip near the fault in a contrary direction to the red sand- 

 stones and clays, under which, probably, at a distance from 

 the fault, it may dip and be conformable with. Of this, 

 however, I at present cannot speak positively, as I have not 

 seen the breccia underlying the red clays. 



Westward Section. 



7. Red and variegated sandstone. 



8. Red marls and shales. 

 8'. Not exposed. 



9. Red marls and shales. 



10. Reddish brown mountain limestone. 



11. Canky stone and purple marls. 



12. Purplish red sandstone. 



18. Yellowish brown mountain limestone. 



About a mile to the west of Howrigg is a place called 

 Westward, and in the small brook course there is exposed a 

 yellowish-brown limestone, partly earthy and partly crystalline 

 in structure, very much resembling the ordinary permian 

 magnesian limestone of Yorkshire and Durham. It has been 



