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in the hood
Lilurian section. Beneath the diabase lies the
Brandon conglomerate, strongly dure at the stream
level about 4 feet. This conglomerate is a dark
of the Cardigan series and Cumbrian
maroon with flat pebbles, large dimensions up to
3 inches here (but elsewhere of to 1 to 6 inches), fairly
well rounded and lying are on their flat sides and
flat onto the bedding. This into stream deposit
into a track shingle.
On this conglomerate lies the diabase which to
one seems to be an extensive for it lies regularly
upon the bedding of the conglomerate, has its cliff, and
the basal beds are vesicular and quite so. The
orifice are small from 1/4 to 3/8 inch on the
average. About 20 feet higher is a another more decided
vesicular zone.
Further examination shows that it is un-
mistakably a flow and not an intrusion.
a sheet
Beyond is a flow and like the previous one. Over
the sea shore one sees the upper foot. Here it is
and calcite
a breccia fully vesicles filled with quartz
Then comes a considerable thickness of Brandon