88 DESCRIPTION OF THE COAST. 



is a very interesting occurrence of granular iron ore, in a solid, nodular 

 bed, interlaminated in the sandstone. The cliffs from Scalby beck to 

 the projecting point south of Cloughton Wyke are all less than one 

 hundred and thirty-five feet in height, and, as will be seen by the colour- 

 ing of the section, are all composed of diluvial sand and sandstone gravel, 

 resting upon shale and sandstone. The sandstone forms a series of low- 

 water scars, on which it is interesting to trace the contrary courses of 

 the beds, depending on their irregular flexures and inclinations. Before 

 arriving at Cloughton Wyke, the lower and thicker beds of sandstone 

 above-mentioned rise to the summit of the'cliff, and leave the shore to 

 be occupied by the argillo-calcareous and sometimes oolitic beds, full of 

 shells, which represent the inferior oolite. The series here laid bare in 

 the cliffs and on the shore is the following : 



a. Block sandstone, on the top of the cliff, irony, and often spotted with carbo- 

 naceous fragments. 



b. Shale, which wastes from under it. In the upper part principally lie the iron- 

 stone balls. 



c. Nodular, rather shaly, calcareous bed, full of shells, five or six feet ; the joint* 

 sparry and ochry. 



d. Shale, one foot six inches. 



e. Nodular bed like c, full of shells. 

 /. Shale, two feet six inches. 



g. Soft calcareous layers full of shells. 



h. Series of fissile and solid subcalcareous sandstones, ironstone, and calcareous 

 shale beds, here and there containing fossils. Some beds waved like the tide-worn 

 sand, others full of ramified masses very like, but smaller than those in the calcareous 

 grit. 



These beds continue rising in the cliffs which encircle the bay of 

 Cloughton Wyke, where incrustations happen from the water falling over 

 them, and beyond, ascend to the summit of the far loftier cliffs between 

 Cloughton and Haiburn Wyke. That part of these cliffs where the 

 little colliery is established is two hundred and forty feet high, and 

 exhibits the following beds below those enumerated above : 



