1865.] PHILLIPS HAEEOGATE. 



shall have completely mapped out and measured the 

 whole of the large region of elevated Mountain- 

 limestone, Millstone -grit, and Coal-measures of the 

 North and West Ridings. 



On the map of this part of Yorkshire, and further 

 to the west, the whole country south of the Craven 

 fault, for a length (E, to W.) of fifty miles and a 

 breadth of twenty, is marked by many nearly parallel 

 anticlinals, by which the Great Scar limestone and 

 the black limestones of the Yoredale series are fre- 

 quently brought up in narrow elliptical patches, 

 whose direction is about E.N.E. or N.E. Thus at 

 Greenhow HiU, Nursa Knot, Skipton Castle, Con- 

 ingby, Thornton, Gisburn, and many other places 

 these ridges occur, until we reach the remarkable 

 examples at Clitheroe, Whitwell, and Trough of 

 BoUand. 



To this list Harrogate must be added ; its anti- 

 clinal is in the same direction, and I am now^ satis- 

 fied, and have been for some years, that the strata 

 exposed at Low Harrogate are part of the Yore- 

 dale series of limestones, shales, and grits. Eormerly 

 (1836) I classed them with the Millstone-grit. 



In a Hne of section between the Wharfe and 

 Harrogate the strata appear as in the Section, aU 

 in a general sense dipping away to the S.E. from 

 the broad and somewhat complicated and faulted 

 anticlinal of Harrogate. Placed in succession down- 

 wards, this appears to be the order of the beds 

 below the unconformable Permian rocks : — 



Estimated 



Rocks. thicknesses. 



11. SpofForth Haggs roadstone and fossils . 10 ft. 



10. Dark coal-shales and Stigmaria . . unknown. 



9. Follifoot coal-grit, with Stigmaria . . 30 



8. Shales 500 



7. Almes Cliif MiUstone-grit 50 



6. Pannel roadstone 30 



5. Shale unknown. 



4. Harrogate Tunnel sandstone 20 



3. Shale unknown. 



2. Harrogate roadstone 50 



1. Shale unknown. 



Similarly in the continuation of the section to 

 the Nid, the strata follow in the same order, but 

 are not to be observed with the same clearness and 

 certainty. No. 6 is not recognized there. There is 

 probably a fault-line both on the north-west and 

 on the south-east of the Harrogate roadstone-beds. 

 The Almes Cliff' grit, No. 7, is remarkably well seen 



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