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POSITION AND LIE OF THE ROCKS.

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and to be now partly removed from off a certain space by simple denudation.^[1] The following diagram. Fig. 21, represents the probable relations of these rocks.

Fig 21.

Diagrammatic Section across the Lickey, through the Long Wood, and by the new Rose and Crown.

Scale, horizontal, 2 miles to 1 inch.

Nr New red sandstone.
Pt Permian trappean breccia.
P Permian red sandstones and clays.
C Coal-measures.
W Wenlock shale
L Llandovery sandstone converted into space in the centre.

↑ Professor Ramsay, however, informs me that subsequent careful examination made by himself led him to the conclusion that the ridge of the Lickey, formed of quartz rock, was everywhere bounded by a fault, as shown in the later editions or the maps. My own notion still is that the appearances may be accounted for by the overlap of the different subdivisions of the Red rocks among themselves, and their total unconformity as a whole to the rocks below.

[1] Professor Ramsay, however, informs me that subsequent careful examination made by himself led him to the conclusion that the ridge of the Lickey, formed of quartz rock, was everywhere bounded by a fault, as shown in the later editions or the maps. My own notion still is that the appearances may be accounted for by the overlap of the different subdivisions of the Red rocks among themselves, and their total unconformity as a whole to the rocks below.

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