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CHAP. VII.
UNSTRATIFIED ROCKS.
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class II.—Before the Deposition of the Lias.
Strata disturbed In What manner. Localities Igneous Rocks in connection.
a. Affecting the old red sandstone and carboniferous generally, but not the magnesian limestone. By anticlinal and synclinals, and great faults. South Wales. None
Woolhope, Malvern Hills.
Abberford, in Yorkshire None
Quarrington, in Durham. Basaltic dyke from Tuesdale
Manchester
Somersetshire coalfields. ?
South Wales Feldspathic, epidotic, and greenstone trap
Caradoc and Wrekin
b. Affecting the Magnesian limestone, or its equivalent By great faults The Penine Fault (Vol. I. p. 194.) Granitic porphyry (Dufton Pike)
The 9 fathom dyke (Vol. I. p. 194.) None
The Craven fault (Vol. I. p. 194.)
In the Coalbrookdale coalfield. ?
South Wales.
c. Affecting beds of the new red sandstone formation Fault or small anticlinal Acton Reynolds, Shropshire. Dyke of greenstone from the Breidddyn Hills.
Island of Arran Dykes of porphyry, claystone, hornstone, pitchstone, basalt, greenstone, &c.
Great uplifting. Arran. Granite of Goatfield, &c.