296 GEOLOGY OF THE IsTAREAGANSETT BASm. 



Tlie sandstone beneath the conglomerates is again exposed fiye-sixths of a 

 mile north of the beach, an eighth of a mile east of the road, north of 

 a farmhouse. Here it is a bluish sandstone and dips about 40^ E. The 

 basal conglomerate not far eastward dips 60*^ E. 



Almost the entire thickness of the coarse conglomerates exposed at the 

 western Paradise Rocks belongs unquestionably to a single eastward-dipping 

 series, combining northward to form the high ridge which is the conspicu- 

 ous element of the landscape. At the more southern exposures west of the 

 reservoir the conglomerate beds form a series of parallel ridges in the fields; 

 strike N. 18° E , dip east Northward, the second field containing exposures 

 shows a dip of 60° E. in one of the middle ridges; this dip is better 

 shown southeast of a house. The most eastern ridge, forming a steep cliff 

 bordering the reservoir, has coarse conglomerate dipping 40° to 45° E. 

 Passing northward out of the grounds immediately surrounding the Bel- 

 mont House, the more western conglomerates form the southern end of the 

 high conglomerate ridge, to which reference has already been made, dipping 

 50° E. on the 'west side and 60° E. on the east side, while the contin- 

 uation of the conglomerate bed, bordering the reservoir, still dips 45° 

 E. Farther north the bluish sandstone beneath the conglomerate series, 

 already described, dips 40° E. The most western conglomerate exposures 

 dip 60° E. Farther up the conglomerate ridge the dip becomes 80° E., 

 diminishing on the east side to about 40° E. on the northward continua- 

 tion of the conglomerate which farther southward borders the reservoir. 

 Northward, at the quarry on the west side of the main ridge, the dip has 

 diminished to 45° or 50° E., and as the strike swings eastward so as to 

 become N. 30° E., the dip on the eastern side diminishes for a long distance 

 to 30° E. 



These exposures, with easily recognized eastward dip, terminate at 

 an east-west field wall aboixt a third of a mile south of the east-west 

 road bordering the Paradise tract on the north side. East of the last 

 exposure with marked eastward dip, and east of its line of strike, the 

 exposure north of the fence shows an almost vertical dip, or 80° W. 

 Eastward, in the field, a dip of 50° E. was noticed, A short distance to 

 the southeast of these exposures, and east of their line of strike, the second 

 and more eastern ridge of the Paradise Rocks begins. At its north end the 

 dip is 70° to 80° E. This continues southward, as well as can be deter- 



