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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. |