MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12471579744).jpg 1865 <br> HAEKNESS drMBEBlAIirD AND WESTMORELAND <br> 239 <br> they agree with the higher <br> beds of the Skiddaw slate <br> series as these are seen near <br> the ...
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Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12471579744).jpg 1865 <br> HAEKNESS drMBEBlAIirD AND WESTMORELAND <br> 239 <br> they agree with the higher <br> beds of the Skiddaw slate <br> series as these are seen near <br> the junction with the suc- <br> ceeding green slates and por- <br> phyries of the Lake-district <br> proper <br> South-east from Mickle Aw <br> Fell another hill of greater <br> elevation is seen This named <br> Cuns Fell has a very different <br> mineral nature from the ele- <br> vations which are composed <br> of Skiddaw slates Cuns Fell <br> has also a diiferent outline <br> from Mickle Aw Fell Its <br> summit is craggy ; and the <br> upper portion of its eastern <br> side presents prominent <br> bosses of rocks which have <br> strewn this side and the <br> south-eastern slope with an <br> enormous quantity of debris <br> The rock forming Cuns <br> Fell is a greenish crystalline <br> porphyry in which crystals <br> of felspar are abundant ; it <br> has considerable affinity to <br> the green rocks of the lower <br> portion of the green slates <br> and porphyry series of the <br> Lake-district especially as <br> these are seen in Barton Fell <br> overlying the Skiddaw slates <br> but in the latter locality the <br> green rocks are somewhat <br> less crystalline than in Cuns <br> FeU <br> These green porphyries <br> form also the great mass of <br> the rounded hill called Cat- <br> terpellet lying immediately <br> south-west of Cuns Fell to <br> the north-east of which like <br> the Skiddaw slates they pass <br> under the Old Red Sand- <br> stone On the south side of <br> Cuns Fell there is a rather <br> large and somewhat semicir- <br> cular valley known as Ousby <br> VOL XXI PAET I <br> Fault <br> ˘rs <br> o 2 <br> Highcup Gill <br> Murfcon Pike <br> –  1949 feet <br> Murton Beck <br> -Roman Fell 34891913 108495 51125 Page 239 Text v 21 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/34891913 1865 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 21 1865 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 34891913 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/34891913 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-12 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12471579744 2015-08-27 10 00 30 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1865 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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