Table II. — Comparative View of the Secondary Rocks of the East Coast of Scotland. 



[To follow Table I.~] 





Forma tiotiB. 



Groups. 



Strata seen in situ, in Sutherland. 



Nature. 



\ppm\iiritite 

 Thickness 

 infect. 



Strata seen in situ in other counties. 



Transported masses in the drifts, &c. 







Q 



Chalk. 



Uri'ER GrEENSAXD 



and Gault. 

 Neocouian. 















Masses of chalk-flints in Aberdeen, 



Banff, Sutherland, &c. 

 Fragments of civciisand with fossils 



( Klifinshiiv, Aberdeenshire, &C-). 

 lilemshirc, Aberdeenshire (Urquliart, 



Plaidy, &c). 

 Boulders, Lossiemouth t Elgin-li.)A;e. 



1 







:. Light-colon rerl and ferruginous sandstones passing into impure iron- 



Estuarine. 



100+ 









Uppbh Oolite. 



> 



Zones of Am. mutabilis and Am. a/- J 

 tcmansof Wangen (Kimmeridge-f 

 Clay, lower part). 



Coralline Oolite. 



)/. Coarse shelly limestones. 1 <.E reec iated f 

 j 1 . Finely laminated earKaiaeeais shales with shelly \ hedg'' \ 

 grits. J [ 

 v. Coarse sandstones, grits, and conglomerates (casts of marine shells). 

 v. Coarse sandstones witli plant -remains, coaly seama, &C. 

 it. Sandstones with marine shells. 

 t Sandy and argillaceous linn-stones, clays, and sandstones. 



Marine. 



Marine and 

 Estuarine. 

 Marine. 

 Estuarine. 

 Marine. 

 Marine, &c. 



L 500+ | 



50? 

 150+ 



? 

 200? 



N. of Green-Table Point (Caithness). 

 Eutbie (Cromarty). 



Port-an-Eigh (Ross). 



ElguiBhire.Banffsli. (Black- 

 pots, &c). 

 „ Caithness, Moray ski re. &e. 

 „ Elginshire. 



? 



„ Elginshire (Urqnhart Sic), 



rolled fragments on shore, &c. 



Elginshire, Banff, &c. 









s. A great mass of coarse sandstones with coaly seams (several marine 



bands), 

 r. Marine sand-toms, fine-grained, graduating into beds below. 

 </. Sandy shales, with few fossils. 



ji. Blue pyritous ami laminated shales ]ias-.ing into sandstones. 

 o. Black laminated shahs with sqituria and shelly bands. 



a. Calcareous sandstone crowded with fossils ("Roof-bed''). 



Estuarine. 



400 







_ 



Middle Oolite. J 



Zone of Am. perarmaiua, Wright f 

 (Lower Calcareous Grit). 1 



Zone of Am. Jason, Wright (Oxford f 

 Clay, part). \ 



Zone of Am. caUovicnsis, Wright 



Marine. 

 Marine. 

 Marine. 

 Marine. 



Marine. 



lib 



80 



70 



■ 5 



Cadh 



-nn-Righ (Eoss). 



„ Urquhart (Elginshire). 



? _ ? 

 „ Elginshire, 

 „ Elginshire, and in rolled 



fragments on shore. 

 „ Elginshire, &c. 



1 

 1 



LowehOoi.iti: (und ! 

 UitehLias?). 1 



(Kelloway Bock). 

 Great Oolite ? 



m. Coal, with band nf pyrites in its midst. 



/. Variegated estuarine clays, kinds of e.-luarine shells, impure coa/s, &C. 



/.-. While sandstones with suhon.linate bids of shale, 



_/. Sandstone with casts of marine fossils. 



i. Sandstones and shales. 



Estuarine. 



Estuarine. 

 Estuarine. 

 Marine. 

 Estuarine. 



110 

 100+ 



? 



?very great. 



Stotfield and Burghead? (Elginsh.). 



„ LoehSpYTiie (Elginsh.), &c. 



? ? 



? ? 

 „ Elginshire, &c. 









1 Interval n,,t represented in ih.- S in lea-land sivIniti-. : 











Fine-grained micaceous sandstone, 

 Lhanbryd, Loch Spynie, and other 

 localities in Elginshire, &c. 





Middle Liar. 4 

















j 



Zono of Am. Jamesoni, Oppel. 

 Zones of Am. raricostatus and Am. 



/. Thick mass nf Line micaceous clays with many fo3ails. 



f. Sandy limestones alternating with blue clays; many fossils. 



Marine. 

 Marine. 



80+ 

 100 





Boulders, Loch Spynie ea\(FJginsh.). 

 ,, Kaim,lnverugie,&c. (Elg.). 



1 



Lower Lias. \ 



\ 



ElLETIC ? 



Keuteh? j 



oxffnotus, Oppel. 

 Zone olAvicula contort a, Wright. 



d. Alternations of sandstone and shale, with two (or more) thin seams 



of coal (no marine fossils), 

 c. Thick series of conglomerates, sandstones and grits sometimes calca- 

 reous (contains pebbles of 1. and a). 

 h. Concretionary, cream-coloured limestones passing into chert Ac. 1 

 a. Beds of yellow and light-coloured sandstone. 



Estuarine. 



Marine? 



Lacustrine? 



400 



50+ 



f 10 to 20? 



\ 50+ 



. " Cherty rock of Stotfield," Elginsh. 

 ■■ Kejitiiil'erous Sandstones," „ 



? ? 



? ? 



Drifts of Elginshire, on shore, &e. j 

 ? ? 



