TRIASSIC STRATA OF CUMBERLAND AND DUMFRIES. 



Moat and Canobie Section^. Distance 3I miles. 



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In the valley of the Esk^ at Longtown, a soft red sand- 

 stone^ which crumbles on being rubbed between the fingers, 

 is found lying nearly level,, with a dip, if any, slightly to the 

 west. This rock underlies the greater part of the country 

 by Netherby and Scotch Dyke, until you reach the dark 

 red sandstone of Moat ; but the passage of the former rock 

 into the latter is not well seen. However, in the Moat 

 sandstone there is a finely laminated and small-grained 

 stone, suitable for building-purposes, with ripple-marks 

 and a few desiccation-cracks on its surface. Its colour is 

 generally of a dark red, but in its lower beds it is drab. 

 On the whole, it is so like the sandstone of Shawk and St. 

 Bees on the south, and Glenzier and Cove on the north, 

 that there can be no doubt as to its being, with them, of 

 Permian age. The whole thickness of the stone exposed 



* In this and the following sections, illustrating the present memoir, the 

 references will be the following : — 



Trias 



Permian 



Carboniferous , 



Upper Eed Marls and waterstones. 



Upper New Eed Sandstone, Bunt^r. 



Shawk or St. Bees Sandstone. 



Eed marls, with gypsum and conglomerate or breccia. 



Lower New Eed Sandstone. At Canobie, Nos. 4 and 5 

 both contain beds of breccia. 



Eed clays. 



Whitehaven sandstone and pebble-beds. Lower Per- 

 mian. 



Upper Coal-measures. 



Middle Coal-measures. 



Lower Coal-measures. 



Mountain Limestone series. 



