The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ion, at 70° or 80°. These beds are well shown in the cuttings in the cliffs at the backof the houses by the railway station; and on their upturned edgeslie great beds of br»wn and red quartzose conglomerate, dipping north-west at 10° or 15°. These are the basal beds of the Old Eed Sandstone; which may befollowed in one direction to the river-bank, on the other side of whichthey reappear striking to the west into County Waterford; while in 326 PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Mar. 7, the other direction they may be followed up t
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ion, at 70° or 80°. These beds are well shown in the cuttings in the cliffs at the backof the houses by the railway station; and on their upturned edgeslie great beds of br»wn and red quartzose conglomerate, dipping north-west at 10° or 15°. These are the basal beds of the Old Eed Sandstone; which may befollowed in one direction to the river-bank, on the other side of whichthey reappear striking to the west into County Waterford; while in 326 PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Mar. 7, the other direction they may be followed up the cliff to Mount Misery,and for some miles to the north-east in County Kilkenny. Above the conglomerates come red sandstones often flaggy andand sometimes traversed by a rude slaty cleavage. These beds alldip north or north-west at low angles towards some lower ground,where a few scattered quarries show beds of yellow sandstone andflag with yellowish or greenish shaly or slaty partings. Fig 3» Section from DunJcitt House to Mount Misery, Length of Section, about 2 miles. [ d^. G-rey crinoidal limestone in thick Carboniferous limestone, j d^. Dark-grey fossiliferous shales with flaggy lime- [ stones above and flaggy sandstones Rpd Sandstone /Yellow and red sandstone above, red sandstones ^* \ and slates and red conglomerates below. b. Lower Silurian. Grrey, black, and greenish-grey slates and grits. On Mount Misery there is not such a good exhibition of slatycleavage in the Old Eed Sandstone as occurs in the finer sandstonestwo miles to the west of Waterford, in the townland of KnockhouseUpper. The red sandstones which lie there between the coarse con-glomerates, all dipping north-west at 20°, are traversed by a clea-vage which, according to Mr. Du Noyers notes, dips north-north-westat an angle of 50°, making them a rough sandy slate. North of the slope of Mount Misery the ground is very low andflat and little rock is shown in it except on
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