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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13935516931).jpg 1866 <br> JIJKES OLD BED SANDSTONE AND DEVONIAN <br> 353 <br> This sandstone might be either <br> part of the Old Red Sandstone <br> or a Coomhola grit No rock <br> was to be seen for three miles <br> south of this on or near to the <br> road to Simonsbath until I came <br> to a place where the road crossed <br> a little rocky ravine with a small <br> brook which the driver declared <br> was the head of the Exe <br> The rock shown here was a <br> bluish-grey shining clay-slate <br> precisely like some parts of the <br> Carboniferous Slate of Ireland <br> which appeared to dip south at <br> 10° Near Simonsbath similar <br> slate but paler appeared to dip <br> south at 30° At both places the <br> cleavage dips south at 70° or 75° <br> and as there were no decided grit <br> bands and no layers of fossils <br> or any appearance of fossils at <br> all it was with some doubt that <br> I decided on the dip of the beds <br> The section in fig 12 will show <br> the above facts in a diagram- <br> matic form starting from a point <br> a mile east of Lymmouth and <br> crossing the country to Simons- <br> bath <br> The green little open valley <br> of Simonsbath was very similar <br> in aspect to valleys in the Car- <br> boniferous Slate in Ireland and <br> I greatly regret that I was un- <br> fortunately prevented from re- <br> turning here as I intended to <br> trace the Barle down to the part <br> where it runs in a deeper and <br> wilder glen through the Old Red <br> Sandstone north of Dulverton; <br> for it is there that I should most <br> hope to find sufficient exposures <br> The people at Simonsbath assured <br> me that this was the place called <br> Prayway which on the Ordnance <br> map is placed at the head of another <br> stream The map was indeed nearly <br> useless here as neither the roads ri- <br> vers nor features of ground marked <br> on it agreed with the existing ones 36164794 111477 51125 Page 353 Text v 22 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164794 1866 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 22 1866 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36164794 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164794 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13935516931 2015-08-26 06 57 01 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1866 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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