49'3 REPORT ON FIELD MEETINGS 



The Fifth Field Meeting took place on September loth, 

 Cullernose Point, near Craster, being the appointed place. 

 The weather, though brilHant at first, 'ere train time arrived 

 had considerably changed, resolving into cloud and rain ; 

 consequently under these unfavourable conditions only a small 

 party of members assembled at the Central Station. As the 

 main purpose of this meeting was geological — the object being 

 to survey the coast of Northumberland from the mouth of 

 Howick Burn to Cullernose Point — and as Mr. Stanley Smith, 

 B.Sc, had come from Haughton-le-Skerne in order to conduct 

 the party, it was decided to risk the weather, and, if possible, 

 carry out the programme. The sequel justified this course, 

 for happily as we travelled northward the weather improved ; 

 so that when we detrained at Longhoughton station favour- 

 able conditions prevailed. Mr. Smith, who has made a careful 

 examination of this district, has kindly furnished me with an 

 account of the geological features of interest he brought under 

 our notice. 



A Brief Survey of the Geology of the Coast from the 

 Mouth of Howick Burn to Cullernose Point. 



A little to the south of Howick Burn some twelve or 

 fourteen feet of limestone crops out from beneath the sloping 

 cliff of boulder-clay. The limestone is divided by numerous 

 sinuous partings and abounds in latissimoid Product!. The 

 identity of this bed is however a matter of some doubt. 



Below it is a series of argillaceous and arenaceous strata, 

 which contain a second though much thinner limestone, and a 

 seam of coal. The thin limestone consists of two calcareous 

 beds, nine inches and two feet respectively, separated by one 

 foot of shale. The shore at the base of the cliff is strewn 

 with erratics from the glacial formation, including large 

 boulders of Cheviot porphyrite. 



North of the stream a thick falsely-bedded sandstone 

 occupies the whole of the cliff section for a distance of half-a- 

 mile or more, and the sandstone is followed by another series 



