EDEN VALLEY AND YORKSHIRE -DALE DISTRICT. 



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midst of what are clearly undisturbed layers of clay, in many cases 

 only a few inches off from the contortions. 



Fig. 6. — Section in the Settle and Carlisle Railway -cutting at 

 Culgaith. 



Alternations of disturbed, false-bedded, and nearly horizontal laminated clays. 

 All the lines represent the darker-coloured beds of clay. Length 9 in. 



Pig. 7. — Section in the Settle and Carlisle Railway -cutting at 

 Gulgaiih. 



Laminated clays contorted, between undisturbed strata. Length 2 ft. 6 in. 



Thinking there was something about these apparently contorted 

 clays that could not be well accounted for by the ordinarily received 

 theories of their origin, the writer paid much attention to their 

 mode of occurrence, with the object of discovering something that 

 would help to explain the difficulty. After noticing that most of 

 the sections which showed contortions like those represented in 

 fig. 7 were upon faces which run along the " strike " of the false 

 bedding, and that along sections parallel with the lines of highest 

 inclination the contortions are much simpler in character, the writer 



