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And again thus — 





c in this wood cut denoting what appears to be either a joint 

 or a slip, I cannot say which positively. 



The sandstone appears to extend in an easterly direction 

 up the valley for about a mile, at first nearly level; but 

 certainly increasing a little in its dip, which is to the west- 

 south-west. It is succeeded by a cream-coloured carboniferous 

 limestone, and then a red sandstone, similar to the Smardale 

 sandstone,* appears up to the Foot Bridge over the stream at 

 Whitrigg, where the carboniferous limestone is again seen 

 dipping west-south-west, at an angle of 21°. 



The conglomerate in the vicinity of Brough varies consider- 

 ably from that of Belah Scar, both in extent and position; 

 it is of far greater thickness, and instead of lying nearly level, 

 as it does at the last-named place, it dips at a great angle, as 

 described by Professor Sedgwick, who says : — " And I may 

 here remark, as I have done in a former paper, that the 

 magnesian conglomerates close to Brough have been tilted by 

 the. action of the Pennine fault, in the same manner as the 

 carboniferous beds on which they rest, whilst the same con- 

 glomerates near Kirkby Stephen rest almost horizontally on 

 the edges of the beds which have been tilted by the action of 

 the Craven fault, and hence we may conclude that the two 

 faults, although both produced near the end of the palaeozoic 



* For a description of this sandstone lying in the mountain limestone, see 

 Professor Sedgwick's paper on the Lower Palseozoic Rocks at the base of the 

 carboniferous chain, between Ravenstonedale and Ribblesdale. Quarterly 

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