CiRC. No. 126 



MONDAY'S ROUTES. —Low tide about 4 p.m. 



I. — Members arriving at Easiiigton l)y train from South at 10-29 a.m., or train 

 from North at 1 1-6 a.m. will leave Easington Station on the arrival of the latter train 

 and work the glens towards Staithes under the leadership of Mr. Kenneth McLean. 



2. — Members arriving at Staithes by train at I -30 p.m. from the North, or 2-0 

 p.m. from the South will leave Staithes Station on the arrival of the second train 

 and work as far up the glens as time permits. Leaders, Mr. W. H. Thomas and 

 Mr. T. F. Ward. 



3. — The Geological party will leave Easington Station on the arrival of the 

 train from the south at 9-9 a.m., and will proceed, under the leadership of Mr. P. 

 F. Kendall, K.G.S., and Mr. W. Y. Veitch, M.R.C.S., to the I^oulby Alum Works. 

 Returning to Easington Station at 1-21 p.m., they will proceed to Ilinderwell, 

 where they will be joined by a later contingent, and will walk to Runswick Bay, and 

 thence up the shore to Staithes. 



THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC 



SOCIETY have organized an Excursion on Eriday and Saturday, July 31 and 

 August I, for the examination of the Coast Sections between Blea Wyke and Whitby 

 under the leadership of Mr. P. F. Kendall, E.G.S., Dr. W. Y. Veitch, and Rev. 

 J. Ilawcll, M.A., with a Meeting at Whitby on Saturday evening. Monday's 

 geological route, given above, is planned in continuation of these arrangements. 



GEOLOGY.— The Geological section will be represented by its President, 

 Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., and its Secretaries, Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A., 

 F.G.S, and Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S. 



Mr. C. Fox-Strangways, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey, has furnished the 

 following notes : — Commencing at the northern end of the area under examination, 

 we first meet with the thin limestones and oyster bands that are seen on the shore 

 opposite Redcar, and which constitute the zones of Am. angulatus and Am. buck- 



landi of the Lower Lias. 



The Rha;tic beds and the lowest beds of the Lias (zone of Am. planorbis) are 

 not exposed here, but have been met with in artilicial sections a short distance 

 inland. Proceeding southwards from Redcar the cliff is occupied entirely by glacial 

 deposits till we reach Saltburn, a distance of four miles. At this point the northern 

 ■escarpment of the Lias strikes the coast, the whole of the Middle Lias and a large 

 part Qf the Lower Lias being exposed in the precipitous face of tlunteliff. 



On the shore here the jamcsoni beds form extensive scars at low water, while 

 in the cliffs al)0ve we have "the full thickness of the fapricornus- and margaritatus- 

 beds, the spinatus-ht^?>^ containing the Main Seam ot Ironstone, outcropping just 

 along the edge of the cliff. This section is again repeated at Hummersea where the 

 beds are more accessible, the juncti(.)n between the Lower and Middle Lias being 

 close to high-water mark. In the magnificent cliffs of Boulby, 600 feet in height, 

 just south of this, there is a complete section from the lower part of the Oolites to 

 \\\c jamesoni-hQ.A?,. A great part of this, from the precipitous nature of the cliffs, is 

 inaccessdMe, but the higher portion may be reached in the old alum works. These 

 alum works are well worth a visit as showing the large extent of this industry in 

 former times, and as being the locality from which many of the large saurlans were 

 obtained. At Staithes the sandy beds of the Middle bias reach the shore and are 

 regularly succeeded by the Ironstone Series and the lower portion of the Upper Lias. 

 The lower beds here are very rich in starfish, while the beds above, wliich inchule 

 the zones of })iargm italus, spinains, annulalits, and serpen/iiiiis, from their gradually 

 declining to the shore, are very favourably situated for examination. 



At Rosedale Wyke a shaft has been sunk to the ironstone, \\hich is here worked 

 below sca-lcvek South of this a smAll dislocation repeats some of the beds, so that 

 after crossing the picturesque bay of Runswick we get the Ironstone Series again 

 exposed at Kellleness Point. Here at one tinic the ironstone was dug on Lhe shore, 

 and sent away by ship to the northern furnaces, a large amount of it having been 

 removed. The coast between Kettleness and Sandsend exhibits a good section of 

 the three divisions of the Upper Lias (the ainuilatiis, the sapeiiii.iuis, and the 

 <:o?;imnnisA:)Q<ls), but from llie sea washing the base of the cliff it is rather a dangerous 

 one to exjilore. The old jet liolcs along here form a series of caverns which have a 

 very weird effect. 





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