4 Dr. Henry Hicks—Folds and Faults in N. Devon Rocks. 
mainly in one direction, and the rocks near the fault-planes have 
been much sheared. 
Compe Martin Bay. 
In the beds along the East shore of Combe Martin Bay from 
Hangman Point to Combe Martin, there are many instructive ex- 
amples of folds and faults. From Hangman Point to Wild Pear 
Beach there is a succession of thick beds of grits and flaggy sand- 
stones which, at and near the point, dip generally to the south at an 
angle of about 35°. Nearer Wild Pear Beach they become bent into 
sharp folds, and at the north-east corner they are cut across by a fault 
as shown in Fig. 1. The beds north of the fault are mainly red, 
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Fre. 1.—Cliff-face N.E. shore of Wild Pear Beach, Combe Martin Bay. 
purple, and grey grits and sandstones with some intercalated flaggy 
beds, but immediately south of the fault flaggy and slaty calcareous 
beds are met with, here much crushed. In the point which separates 
Wild Pear Beach from Sandy Bay the flaggy sandstones which, in » 
natural order, overlie the Hangman grits, and which separate the 
latter from the calcareous beds, reappear bent into acute folds which 
reach to the top of the cliff, as seen in Fig. 2. Between here and 
N.W. Leg. 2. S.E. 
Fic. 2.—Clifi-face N.E. shore of Sandy Bay, Combe Martin. 
Combe Martin the beds are greatly folded and frequently broken, 
but the succession is easily traceable. 
The succession, as seen in the cliffs between Hangman Point and 
Combe Martin Harbour, indicates such an order of deposition as 
would accompany a gradual depression with a shore-line not far. 
north of the Hangman Point. The lowest or massive grit and 
sandstone beds are clearly followed in true succession by the finer 
flaggy beds, and the latter by slaty and calcareous beds. Certain 
fossil zones which can be traced often offer evidence to prove that 
the beds are inverted when the folds are too much broken to be 
easily followed. Near the crest of the hill north of Combe Martin 
Church, red and purple grits belonging to the lower or Hangman. 
