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  ME. 
  F. 
  R. 
  COWPER 
  REED 
  OX 
  THE 
  RED 
  ROCKS 
  [May 
  1 
  897, 
  

  

  the 
  inner 
  angle 
  of 
  the 
  bay 
  hides 
  the 
  actual 
  line 
  of 
  contact 
  of 
  the 
  red 
  

   beds 
  with 
  the 
  neighbouring 
  igneous 
  rocks, 
  but 
  within 
  a 
  yard 
  or 
  so 
  

   of 
  the 
  disappearance 
  of 
  the 
  red 
  beds 
  we 
  find 
  a 
  coarse 
  so-called 
  ' 
  green- 
  

   stone-ash 
  ' 
  cropping 
  out 
  here 
  and 
  there. 
  A 
  great 
  pillar 
  of 
  this 
  ash 
  

   stands 
  out 
  on 
  the 
  beach, 
  some 
  20 
  or 
  30 
  yards 
  from 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the 
  

   slope, 
  as 
  an 
  isolated 
  mass 
  right 
  in 
  the 
  strike 
  of 
  the 
  red 
  beds 
  of 
  the 
  

   cliff-wall 
  of 
  the 
  headland, 
  and 
  thus 
  it 
  is 
  evident 
  that 
  a 
  line 
  of 
  fault 
  

   separates 
  them. 
  A 
  volcanic 
  ' 
  neck 
  ' 
  filled 
  with 
  a 
  felsitic 
  agglomerate 
  

   and 
  a 
  pink 
  felsite 
  runs 
  up 
  the 
  cliffs 
  almost 
  vertically 
  just 
  on 
  the 
  

   west 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  grass 
  slope, 
  and 
  cuts 
  across 
  the 
  ' 
  greenstone-ash 
  ' 
  

   and 
  a 
  greenish 
  felsite. 
  There 
  are 
  no 
  fragments 
  of 
  the 
  red 
  beds 
  

   either 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  greenstone-ash 
  ' 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  felsitic 
  agglomerate 
  of 
  the 
  

   neck, 
  their 
  absence 
  indicating 
  that 
  both 
  these 
  igneous 
  rocks 
  are 
  older 
  

   than 
  the 
  red 
  beds. 
  

  

  Pig. 
  7. 
  — 
  Ground-plan 
  of 
  foreshore 
  on 
  E. 
  side 
  of 
  Kennedy's 
  Island, 
  

   Bunmalion 
  Head. 
  

  

  I 
  — 
  Greenish 
  ash 
  (crushed 
  along 
  line 
  of 
  fault), 
  with 
  intrusive 
  dykes. 
  

   R.S.C. 
  = 
  Red 
  sandstones 
  and 
  conglomerates, 
  with 
  thin 
  red 
  shaly 
  bands. 
  

   F 
  = 
  Fault. 
  

  

  Passing 
  round 
  to 
  the 
  eastern 
  side 
  of 
  Kennedy's 
  Island 
  and 
  

   descending 
  again 
  to 
  the 
  beach 
  by 
  the 
  zigzag 
  path 
  at 
  the 
  western 
  

   corner 
  of 
  this 
  eastern 
  bay, 
  we 
  find 
  here 
  again 
  the 
  ' 
  greenstone-ash 
  ' 
  

   in 
  the 
  cliffs 
  in 
  contact 
  with 
  the 
  red 
  beds, 
  and 
  their 
  line 
  of 
  junction 
  

   may 
  be 
  most 
  distinctly 
  followed 
  on 
  the 
  foreshore 
  and 
  over 
  the 
  reefs 
  

   of 
  rock, 
  where 
  successive 
  beds 
  of 
  red 
  sandstone 
  and 
  conglomerate 
  

   are 
  seen 
  to 
  end 
  abruptly 
  against 
  the 
  ' 
  greenstone-ash 
  ' 
  and 
  igneous 
  

   masses, 
  which 
  are 
  somewhat 
  crushed 
  and 
  shattered 
  along 
  the 
  con- 
  

   tact. 
  This 
  is 
  most 
  clearly 
  another 
  faulted 
  junction, 
  and 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  

   dislocation 
  runs 
  out 
  to 
  sea 
  with 
  a 
  slightly 
  sinuous 
  course 
  to 
  the 
  

   E.N.E. 
  (see 
  fig. 
  7). 
  The 
  red 
  beds 
  here, 
  in 
  the 
  cliffs 
  which 
  form 
  the 
  

   eastern 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  headland, 
  dip 
  north-west 
  at 
  75° 
  to 
  80°. 
  By 
  the 
  

  

  