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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (14073210742).jpg 96 <br> J S GAED 'ER OH THE TEETIAET <br> separated from each other the first from the second by 4 feet and <br> the others by intervals of 3 feet each of a more compact marl of an <br> almost stony character The whole is capped by 30 feet of sandstone <br> withont plants About a mile further east the lignites thin and are <br> only four in number and of less uniform thickness The base is still <br> formed of greenish indurated sometimes ferruginous sandy clay <br> about 200 feet thick passing towards the west into a basaltic breccia <br> at its lower part The lowest bed of lignite is 18 inches thick and <br> the other three 1 foot each separated respectively by 16 12 and <br> 6 feet and the uppermost surmounted by 14 feet of matrix termi- <br> nating with a conglomerate of rounded pebbles Half a mile beyond <br> this to the east the whole of the lignites dip below the sea-leveL <br> A mile further along the coast at the angle of a chine is the section <br> shown in fig 1 <br> The fossiliferous beds rise inland and cannot be traced more than <br> a few hundred yards up the chine They are much faulted ” one <br> fault up the chine had a downthrow of 60 feet ” most of the faults <br> being in a JST J E direction or nearly parallel with the shore pro- <br> ducing sometimes an apparent overlying of the shell-beds by the <br> lignites fig 2 <br> Fig 2 ” Fault causing Shell-beds to he apparently overlain hy <br> Lignites near Husavik Iceland <br> w w <br> a Lignites h Lignites concealed by debris c Shell-bed <br> Much of the matrix especially towards the base is exceedingly <br> like our London clay The shells occur in bands and particular <br> species are confined to particular horizons Across the chine the <br> beds almost immediately dip out of sight fig 3 and are succeeded <br> by higher and unfossiliferous beds more compact and indurated and <br> paler in colour These are also much faulted <br> I ceased to take notes beyond the Cape but I subsequently rode <br> along the coast to the extreme point of Tjornes where I understood <br> lignites had been met with ; but for ten miles the unfossiliferous <br> bed seemed to continue without any change <br> I endeavoured to determine some of the species by comparison <br> at the Jermyn Street Museum and submitted the list of names <br> which resulted and the specimens to Mr Searles V Wood and to <br> Dr J Gwyn Jeff'reys who very kindly furnished me with the details <br> embodied in the accompanying table <br> Dr Morch in the work referred to above gives a list of 58 37046934 114009 51125 Page 96 Text 41 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046934 1885 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 41 1885 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 37046934 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/37046934 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14073210742 2015-08-26 04 51 56 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1885 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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