DISLOCATIONS OF THE SILURIAN ROCKS. 



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Norton Camp, on the left bank of the Onny, and dip due east 15°. In the still higher ridge on 

 the opposite bank of the river, called View or Yeo Edge, the Aymestry limestone again resumes 

 the prevalent south-westerly strike, the beds inclining 8° south-east, thus proving a great fracture 

 nearly at right angles to the chain, by which the limestone has been dissevered, and thrown into 

 the divergent directions which it now occupies on the opposite banks of the river. Between the 

 transverse valleys of the Onny and the Teme, the strata composing Mocktree Forest, are arranged 

 with tolerable regularity, the Ludlow rocks dipping to the east-south- east and south-east at slight 

 angles. There are, however, many exceptions to this regularity, each comb or recess in the escarp- 

 ment being, more or less, the seat of a minor fault. In several of these combs the Aymestry lime- 

 stone is exposed. 



One of the most remarkable of these dislocations is at the Old Craft lime-works at 

 Mocktree Hays, where there is a complicated fault, by which a mass of the Aymestry 

 limestone 0*) has been thrown into nearly a vertical position, the lower beds abutting 

 against the edges of a mass of similar limestone, which has been thrust up between the 

 highly inclined strata and another dislocated mass. Each of these bands of limestone 

 (c) is capped by the stratum ( & ) charged with Terebratula navicula, and underlaid by the 

 pendle beds (<*) of the Lower Ludlow Rock. 



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Other dislocations producing considerable changes of level are seen on the sides of the 

 comb by which the road from Leintwardine to Ludlow passes, of which this wood-cut 

 may convey a general idea, the observer being supposed to be placed on the west of 

 the escarpment and looking eastwards towards the Ludlow Hills. 



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The gorge of the river Teme, at Downton, is the result of a third great transverse 

 fault, like the others affording evidence of a very powerful dislocation, by which the 

 strike and inclination of the beds is completely altered, for instead of an inclination of 

 8° or 10° to the south-east, as exhibited in most of the hills of Mocktree Forest, the 

 Ludlow rocks and included limestone on the banks of the Teme are wrenched round, 

 striking east and west, and dipping to the north in Tatter Edge at an angle of 40°, and 

 in Downton Gorge at 20°. The convulsion which gave rise to the gorge of the Teme, 

 is indeed, the same as that which determined the form of the Ludlow promontory. 



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