1873.] 



HULL PERMIAN OP ARMAGH. 



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cemented by a sandy calcareous paste, it may have been mistaken 

 for a brecciated form of the Carboniferous Limestone itself. 



Description of the beds. — The sections of the Permian breccias and 

 boulder-beds are exposed to view in several old quarries about half 

 a mile to the south-east of Armagh, the quarries themselves having 

 been worked for marble from beds of the Carboniferous Limestone 

 which are in the lower part of that formation. The lowest beds of 

 the Permian, resting directly on the limestone, consist of consolidated 

 breccia of limestone pebbles in a reddish sandy paste, in some cases 

 becoming an evenly bedded calcareous sandstone with pebbles (see 

 figs. 1 and 2). These beds are 10 or 12 feet in thickness, and are over- 

 Fig. 1. — Section in Old Quarry near Armagh (31 feet). 



Pig. 2. — Another Section in Old Quarry near Armagh. 



D. Boulder-clay (Drift). 

 L. Carboniferous Limestone. 



BB. Boulder-bed \ Permian 



B. Breccia (" Brockram ") J 



lain by soft rudely stratified conglomerate and boulder-beds of 

 subangular and rounded blocks of purple and greenish grit, felspathic 

 sandstone, vein quartz, and a few of limestone. In some places the 

 lower calc-breccia (" brockram ") graduates upwards into the over-, 



