I1AIBURN WYKE. 
The cliffs which begin on the north side of Haiburn Wyke are 
loftier than any which have hitherto claimed our attention. They con- 
tinue rising with altitudes of two hundred and ninety-six, three hundred 
and eighty-seven, and four hundred and ninety-seven feet, to the High 
Peak which is about five hundred and eighty-five feet above the sea. In 
the middle of this high range, the uppermost rock is the carbonaceous grit- 
stone so frequently mentioned, and below it a series of limestone, shale, 
and sandstone, corresponding to those already enumerated at Cloughton 
Wyke. Lower beds than these also appear at the northern and southern 
extremities, but are obscured in the middle by what seems to be a very 
extensive slip of the superior heights, forming an “ undercliff. 
As in a part of the Stainton cliffs the carbonaceous sandstone is seen 
lying upon the oolitic series, whilst at Blue Wick below the Peak the 
lias appears, we obtain by uniting the observations the following section 
of nearly the whole of the moorland series of rocks. 
Carbonaceous grit, containing black shale in lumps and layers, 
bits of carbonized wood, and striated culms, but apparently 
different from those of High Whitby. This rock is quar- 
ried on the edge of the cliff. 
Shale of a dark colour. 
Shelly limestone, with large short belemnites. 
Shale. 
Nodular shelly beds, like c. 
Apparently corresponding to the sandstones and shales so 
' marked in the section of Cloughton Wyke. 
} Corresponding to the rocks so marked in the section of 
Cloughton. 
40 a. 
30-1 
[b. 
c. 
d. 
e. 
40 
f. Shale, 
h. Sandstone, 
i. Shale, 
Jc. Sandstone, 
l. Shale, 
m. Sandstone, 
90 
P 
fp. 
Shale, 
. Sandstone, 
Shale, 
