4ft 



POPULAR QEOLOQT. 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



Top Stone thin bedded flagstone 12 



i Strong Hag fi j 



Bottom Stone •< Ashlar Stone , 4 eC 17 6 



t Lower Stone 7 05 



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Dip of Strata 6 degrees or about 1 yard in 9 to the South. Taken 



October 13th, 1866. 



At Paddock on the opposite side of Shibden-dale the following section 



occurs : — 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



I/)wer strata (Soil .- , f. J 



of Middle Coal ^ Dark Coloured Hubble 5 oC- 20 



measures, f Brownish Shale 14 bS 



fStone 1 6^ 



I Stiong Kag 2 | 



I Stone 1 1 



i^ Shale 2 2J 



Cliaggy Stone 6 01 



Bottom Stone -^Hurd Shale 1 4V 17 4 



f^tone 10 0) 



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Dip of Strata 3 degrees South East. Taken October 13th, 1866. 



The fourth and last section which I shall give, is taken from 



a quarry on the left hand side of the Bradford-road between NorthoAvram 



and Shelf : — 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



Lower strata of C Soil 6^ 



M iddle Coal ^ Clay and Rubble 5 6S- 22 



measm-es. / Shale 16 oS 



Rag 3 0) 



HardShale 5 0^ 9 



Kag 1 0> 



Stone 4 0^ 15 



Bottom Stone » . 11 S 



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Beyond this quarry the flagstone rock disappears, towards the east, 

 under the Middle Coal measures of Shelf and Low Moor. 



I have selected the above sections out of a great number that I have 

 taken in different parts of this formation, as being perhaps the most 

 illustrative of the Flagstone Rock of this neighbourhood. 



Perhaps nowhere in th's locality shall we get a better idea of this 

 series of beds than in the Kingby and Swale's tuoor quarries. There they 

 occur in every variety of form and material ; fi'om hard compact masses 

 of stone, to soft marly shale ; and from layers so thin that it would take 

 many to form an inch in thickness, to others many feet in thickness. In 



