1873.] 



JTTDD THE SECONDAEr ROCKS OE SCOTLAND. 



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commenced, further to the south and a little more removed from the 

 line of junction, but still in close proximity to the great mountain- 

 cliff of contorted Silurian rocks which form "the High land of 

 Eathie;" it is said to have been carried to a depth of more than 

 100 feet in the shales and limestones of the Oolite. 



Fig. 10. — Section at Eathie Bay along the line A B of the 

 Plan (see fig. 9). 



W.N.W. 



Talus. 



Strata 

 much broken 

 Shaft. Shingle, and crushed. Anticlinal. 



E.B.E. 



^U^- 



vfc$^< 



¥m 



a. Old Eed Sandstone. 



FAULT. 

 b. Upper Oolite Shales and Grits. 



A careful examination of the reefs on the Eathie shore, which dip 

 at various high angles, and are often perfectly vertical, shows that 



Eig. 11. — Section at Eathie Bay, along the line C D of the Plan 



(see fig. 9). 

 w. E. 



High Cliff, 

 capped by 

 Boulder-clay. Talus. Shaft. Shingle. 



I 



a. Lower Silurian Gneissosc rocks &c. 



b. Upper Oolite Shales, Limestones, &c., with pseudo-dykes. 



they are the denuded edges of a series of strata bent into a number 

 of sharp folds and contortions, as is illustrated in the sections, 



