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Mr. Hutton's Notes on the New Red Sandstone, S^c. 



The diagram, No. 2. represents an ideal section of the strata from 

 Killingworth Village southward, through the Closing Hill Quarry. It 

 is a remarkable circumstance that, although the slip, or " throw," is 

 here so enormous, yet, that the derangement, arising from the increase 

 of inclination of the strata, extends but a very short distance from the 

 Dyke. 



No. 2. 



JVi/rfh 



Killingworth 



South 



Closins: Hill 



Killingworth House which is, as before stated, about 950 yards north 

 of the Dyke, is built upon the Grindstone Post, a well-known Sandstone 

 bed here at the surface j but, if we wished to find that bed at the Dyke, 

 we should have to sink 120 fathoms before we reached it. 



The occurrence of the Red Sandstone, in the situation described, af- 

 fords evidence of great value in estimating the correctness of the views 

 taken of this stratum in the foregoing notice. That this patch of Sand- 

 stone which is now upwards of six miles from the nearest point of the 

 same rock, once formed part of a continuous stratum, we cannot doubt, 

 nor that the intervening portion has been removed by the operation of 

 water, that mighty agent which has been employed universally in 

 modifying the surface of the globe. It is difficult to obtain an idea of 

 the extent of force necessary, but it is, nevertheless, as probable, that 

 such a removal of this bed may have taken place, as that the strata on 

 the high side of the Dyke have been removed, which, when the slip took 

 place, must have presented, at this point, a face of rock, upwards of 

 1000 feet high. 



