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Lima series np to Kilve Pill, and must be seen to be understood ; 

 beyond this about fifteen faults cut up the coast, and expose the 

 Ehsetic series again in a remarkable manner, these being the 

 Little Stoke beds noticed at page 3 in slips. 



The fore-shore between Quantocks Head and Kilve Pill exhibits 

 a series of horizontal wavy curves and contortions not to be 

 disentangled, this arises from the occurrence of no less than 

 eight east and west faults, parallel to each other, the whole of 

 which, I doubt not influence Watchett, Carhampton,andDunster 

 to the west, thence dividing into two main branches or take the 

 direction of Minehead and Selworth south of North Hill thus 

 letting in the patch of Ehsetic shales, &c. at Yenniford and 

 Brandy Street, near Holincote. The other line of faulting 

 passes under the southern slopes of the bold and massive 

 Grabbist Hill, and along the romantic valley of Avil and 

 Timberscombe, to Wooton Courtney and Luckham and on to 

 the submerged Forest of Porlock. Patches of Dolomitic 

 conglomerate at Porlock, Knoll, Luckham, and Timberscombe, 

 evidence the amount of denudation and subsequent removal of 

 superincumbent strata that has since taken place. 



The table of comparative sections of the West Somerset Ehaetic 

 is constructed to show the relative thickness of the various 

 subdivisions, both above and below the horizon of the Bone Bed 

 in four different locahties, these are compared with a known 

 standard of succession shown on the right hand column, and 

 which is really complete on both sides of the channel, viz. at 

 Dunraven and Penarth on the opposite Welsh coast, and at 

 St. Audrey's slip. It has reference chiefly to the Black Shales, 

 but is not critically correct. 



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