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The above strata have been folded into a synclinal trough, whose 
western lip appears on the shore at the point where the St Monans Burn 
enters the sea, while its eastern lip can be seen on the shore opposite Coal 
Farm, half way between St Monans and Pittenweem. The centre of the 
Limestone P- 0 'ganteu 6 
Shale 
Yellow Sandstone 
Shales 
Fossiliferous Shales 
Sandstones with Stigmaoia 
Flaggy Sandstone 
Shales 
Rhynchonella Lima. 
Shales with Nodules 
Bnecciated Lime. 
White Coral Lime. 
Flo. 3. — Comparative Vertical Sections of the Lower Limestone Series at the east 
and west ends of the St Monans syncline. 
trough, which is not very symmetrical, appears immediately to the east of 
the harbour. 
The White Coral Limestone, No. 3 in the above table, appears on the 
shore near Coal Farm. It presents all the lithological, stratigraphical, 
and palaeontological features of the Blackbyre Limestone of the West of 
Scotland, especially as it is developed at Corrieburn, so that we have no 
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