1845.] 



BINNEY ON THE NEW RED SANDSTONE. 



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minates in two singular rounded projections, which have evidently 

 been pushed up by the underlying strata. It is succeeded by about 

 one yard of red clays, which bear evidence of considerable pressure 

 having been exerted upon them. Then come regular coal-measures, 

 dipping S.S.W. at angles varying from 80° to 70°. These last-named 

 strata are in the lower part of the middle coal-field ; the whole of 

 the thick beds of this valuable deposit being here covered up by the 

 upper new red sandstone, and I am not aware that any attempt has 

 been made to follow them under this rock. 



(3.) Beet Bank Bridge Section. 

 E. w. 



Middle coal-measures. 



Drift. 



Unproved. 



This is seen on the banks of the Tame, about three miles north" 

 east of Stockport. The upper new^ red sandstone (6) runs up the val- 

 ley from Reddish Mills, skirting coal-measures on its northern side. 

 It dips at a moderate angle nearly due west. Its absolute point of 

 contact with the coal-measures cannot be seen, owing to a thick 

 covering of drift, which hides the section for about fifty yards ; 

 but when the measures do appear they are seen dipping to the 

 west, at an angle of 19°. Their position is about the upper part of 

 the middle field. No traces of the two lowest members of the new 

 red sandstone formation have here been seen ; but the late Mr. 

 Fletcher's trustees, in working their 'little coal' to the north-west by 

 the footway leading to Reddish Mills, drove their levels for a distance 

 of 100 yards under the sandstone without perceiving the slightest 

 disarrangement of the measures, thus clearly proving that the latter 

 there run quite regular under the sandstone, and are not cut off, as 

 local miners have hitherto supposed. 



(4-.) Manchester Section, 



N.E. ^ 



Middle coal. Unproved. 



Middle and upper coal-measures. 



Under the site of All Saints Church in Chorlton-upon-Medlock, 

 a thin bed of red marls was found lying upon the upper new red 

 sandstone. The latter rock occupies the whole of the distance 

 between that place and Mr. Schofield's chapel in Every Street. It 

 dips to the south-west at an angle of about 10°. From the chapel 

 to the river Medlock, near 100 yards of strata are covered with drift 



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