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DESCRIPTION OF THE ROCKS 
277 ft- Upper limestone group 
Plates and grits above the bearing grit : 
1 00 ft. Bearing grit, the upper beds flaggy 
'Plate 
Sharp hard limestone in nodular beds 
Parting of plate ... 
Light coloured limestone 
Parting of plate ... 
Limestone, light coloured 
Parting of plate ... 
Limestone, light coloured 
Elate 
- Limestone, dark coloured 
Limestone, with some gritstones and plates 
Ft. In. 
100 0 
84 0 
6 0 
9 0 
36 0 
60 0 
4 6 
78 0 
210 0 
Passing from this glen head to the north, we come to another 
branch of the same stream, where we have a very similar section. But 
lurther on to the north, from this point to Parkhead, the summit 
ot the Coverdale road, we find a limestone gradually growing more 
and more apparent, ‘putting in,’ as the miners say, between the bearing 
gnt and the subjacent plate ; it crosses the Coverdale road, occupies 
a large green area on the summit, ranges down both sides of Coverdale 
and along both sides of Wharfedale, above Starbottom, Buckden, &e 
West of the Coverdale road, this limestone thickens, and the interval 
between the bearing grit and the great lower limestone scars continually 
augments, as the following measured sections will prove, (Outline 
No. 1 .) 
1. West of the Coverdale road, a quarter of a mile : 
Upper limestone group 
Bearing grit and coal : 
Limestone of Parkhead 
Micaceous sandstone 
Plate and ironstone 
Chert beds 
Plate, thin 
Limestone, shelly and crinoidal 
Plate, thin 
Limestone 
30 to 40 feet 
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