224 MISS G. E. WATNEY AND MISS E. G. WELCH ON THE [May 191 I, 



easterly and south -south -westerly direction, and brings them 

 abruptly against the Stockdale Shales and the Coniston Limestone 

 Series. On the south the Sally-Beck fault forms the boundary of 

 the Wenlock Beds: this runs close to, and almost parallel with, 

 the Rawthev. 



Pig. 1. — Section through Wandale Hill. 



W. 



Backside 

 Beck 



Quarry 



Wandale Rd. 



[Horizontal scale: G inches— 1 mile.] 



The eastern slope of the hill shows a conformable passage down- 

 wards from the Wenlock into the Stockdale Shales and the Coniston 

 Limestone Series. All these beds sweep round from a north-easterly 

 to an easterly direction below Adamthwaite, and join the rocks 

 exposed in Harter Fell. 



Adamthwaite Sike, which forms the northern limit of Wandale 

 Hill, runs through drift, and it is therefore impossible to determine 

 the trend of the beds near the northern limit of the Wandale-Hill 

 fault. 



The Ludlow rocks occur as an oval outcrop capping Wandale 

 Hill, and a section showing the Ludlow resting upon the highest 

 AVenlock Beds is seen on the west side of the hill ; but on the east 

 side, in the gills near Wandale Farm (which we have named W 

 and W 2 ) only the three lowest Wenlock zones are exposed. The 

 AVenlock strata of this area are yellow, banded, sandy flags, passing 

 up into the blue banded flags typical of the Haw they area. 



Cyrtograptus - murchisoni Zone (CJ. — 'The boundaiy 

 between the Browgill and the Wenlock Beds occurs 40 yards below 

 the Pell wall on East Wandale. 



The lowest Wenlock Beds strike parallel to, and are well exposed 

 in many small sections along, the Wandale road. The conformable 

 relation of these C '.-murchisoni Beds to the Browgill Beds below is 

 well seen in three small gills north of the Narthwaite larch wood and 

 in the numerous gills near Wandale. Their passage upwards into 

 the Monograptus-riccartonensis and C y rtograptus-rigidus Zones is 

 best shown in two small gills north of Wandale Farm. 



In one of these, W^ the base of the Cyrtograptus -murchisoni 

 Zone is exposed 20 yards below the road, and its upper limit occurs 

 at the road. The rocks, dipping at an angle of 40° north-west by 

 west, are massive, banded, grey and yellow, sandy flags. Tiie 



