CARBONIFKROUS DISTRICT OF COLCHESTER AND HANTS. 



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it will be easily understood that in the upheaval of large surfaces of 

 rock, these would readily give way along the lines of greatest and 



Fig. 74. — Lepidodendron comtgatvm 

 — portion of bark. 



WL 



irnvM 



l!li 



Fig. 76. — Fragment of Leaf 



of ^orjtdtes. 



Fig. 75. — Cyclopteris Acadica. 



(o) Pinnules showing venation. (6) Frag^ment of stipe, 



(c) Stipe, I'innules, ami remains of fructification. 



least pressure, and be tilted in different directions and slipped up or 

 down. The general dip of these bed.s, however, so far as it can be 

 ascertained by putting together their disjointed portions, appears to 

 be to the north-east or from the older slaty rocks. 



The llorton Bluff beds are the geological equivalents of the beds 



