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together; the former only slightly fossiliferous, hut containing in 

 places numbers of globular Foraminifera, of about the size of peas, 

 and the latter group being varied a good deal along the oblique line 

 of fault at the contact with the newer rock. 



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fig. 36.— Diagramatic section, Nursingpho&r Valley. 



At this place there are some slight traces of the black coaly shales 

 beneath the nummulitic limestone, while just across the fault crinoidal 

 carboniferous limestone is seen. On the opposite bank of the stream 

 some ferruginous beds dip steeply (at 75*) towards the high ground 

 above, and are overlaid by two black shaly layers of about a foot each, 

 separated by two feet of sandy limestone. Over these are 20 feet of 

 greenish shales, succeeded by 80 feet of purple and white shaly beds, 

 above which come greenish, arenaceous, and argillaceous limestones, the 

 ordinary grey, or bluish, compact, thick carboniferous limestone over- 

 lying the whole and passing beneath the talus at the foot of the num- 

 mulitic limestones which cap the hilL 



Somewhat further up the stream, the nummulitic limestone forms the 

 left bank, and on the southern side of the glen 

 white carboniferous, crinoidal limestone dips at a 

 very high angle under a quantity of purple clays, alternating three times 

 in the upper fifty feet with greenish sandy beds. A few hundred yards 

 further, on the same side of the stream, the carboniferous group is 

 formed of 180 to 200 feet of pale pinkish-white sandstones with cal- 

 careous beds, containing in the upper part some carbonaceous and mica- 

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Further up the glen. 



