﻿PEOP. 
  C. 
  LAPWORTH 
  ON 
  THE 
  GIEVAN 
  SUCCESSION. 
  

  

  579 
  

  

  below, 
  and 
  passing 
  upward 
  regularly 
  into 
  flaggy 
  and 
  more 
  shaly 
  

   beds 
  above. 
  These 
  are 
  at 
  once 
  surmounted 
  by 
  the 
  Benan 
  Conglo- 
  

   merate. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  11. 
  — 
  Section 
  across 
  the 
  Ballantrae 
  and 
  Girvan 
  Rocks 
  

   of 
  Byne 
  Hill. 
  

  

  S.E. 
  

  

  N.W. 
  

  

  Byne 
  MU, 
  

  

  / 
  

  

  

  OJte 
  

  

  O. 
  K. 
  S. 
  Conglomerates 
  and 
  sandstones 
  of 
  Old 
  Eed 
  Sandstone 
  age. 
  

  

  Ac. 
  Benan 
  Conglomerate 
  in 
  its 
  ordinary 
  characters. 
  

  

  L. 
  Crushed 
  and 
  altered 
  limestones 
  of 
  doubtful 
  age. 
  

  

  2. 
  Serpentine. 
  

  

  Sy. 
  Syenitic 
  granite 
  of 
  Byne 
  Hill. 
  

  

  //. 
  Faults. 
  

  

  The 
  same 
  beds 
  may 
  be 
  traced 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  in 
  both 
  directions, 
  

   and 
  are 
  possibly 
  cut 
  out 
  to 
  the 
  south-west 
  by 
  a 
  transverse 
  fault 
  

   passing 
  through 
  the 
  farmhouse 
  of 
  Drumfairn. 
  

  

  From 
  Byne 
  Hill 
  the 
  Benan 
  Conglomerate 
  is 
  traceable 
  in 
  an 
  

   unbroken 
  strip 
  to 
  the 
  sea-shore 
  at 
  Kennedy's 
  Pass 
  (fig. 
  12). 
  It 
  

   varies 
  much 
  in 
  its 
  transverse 
  diameter 
  throughout 
  this 
  extent 
  ; 
  but 
  

   as 
  it 
  nowhere 
  exhibits 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  naturally 
  underlying 
  limestones, 
  

   so 
  far 
  as 
  may 
  be 
  inferred 
  from 
  the 
  phenomena 
  exhibited 
  in 
  the 
  few 
  

   exposures 
  upon 
  the 
  hill-slopes, 
  it 
  seems 
  probable 
  that 
  throughout 
  

   the 
  whole 
  of 
  this 
  extent 
  its 
  south-western 
  edge 
  is 
  faulted 
  down 
  

   against 
  the 
  igneous 
  series 
  of 
  Ballantrae. 
  

  

  The 
  dividing 
  basal 
  fault 
  is 
  well 
  seen 
  where 
  the 
  conglomerate 
  

   comes 
  upon 
  the 
  sea-shore, 
  and 
  is 
  traceable 
  for 
  some 
  distance 
  in 
  a 
  

   south-westerly 
  direction, 
  running 
  almost 
  parallel 
  with 
  the 
  shore-line. 
  

   Where 
  it 
  finally 
  disappears 
  beneath 
  the 
  water 
  it 
  is 
  joined 
  at 
  an 
  acute 
  

   angle 
  by 
  a 
  second 
  strike-fault 
  coming 
  down 
  the 
  coast-line 
  from 
  

   Shalloch 
  and 
  Ardwell. 
  In 
  the 
  angle 
  formed 
  by 
  these 
  two 
  converg- 
  

   ing 
  faults 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  grand 
  exhibition 
  of 
  Conglomerate 
  at 
  the 
  

   well-known 
  locality 
  of 
  Kennedy's 
  Pass, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  first 
  studied 
  

   by 
  Murchison 
  and 
  Nicol, 
  and 
  where 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  frequently 
  examined 
  

   by 
  recent 
  students 
  of 
  the 
  rocks 
  of 
  this 
  region. 
  In 
  the 
  roadway 
  and 
  

   cliffs 
  at 
  this 
  point 
  the 
  numerous 
  transverse 
  dislocations 
  which 
  have 
  

   affected 
  it 
  admit 
  of 
  easy 
  recognition, 
  and 
  the 
  conglomerate 
  itself 
  

  

  