. Moray and Nairn. Gows Castle, Covesea of yellow and grey sandstones, and a curious band ofchert called the cherty rock of Stotfield. The sandstonescontain a wonderful series of reptilian fossils. One ofthese, a horned reptile, has never been found in any otherpart of the world, and has been called Elginia area was long supposed to consist solely of Old RedSandstone, but the fossiliferous remains put it beyonddoubt that some of the sandstones are Triassic, if the 28 MORAYSHIRE sandstone containing Elginia be not Permian. Owing totheir excellence for building purposes, both the
. Moray and Nairn. Gows Castle, Covesea of yellow and grey sandstones, and a curious band ofchert called the cherty rock of Stotfield. The sandstonescontain a wonderful series of reptilian fossils. One ofthese, a horned reptile, has never been found in any otherpart of the world, and has been called Elginia area was long supposed to consist solely of Old RedSandstone, but the fossiliferous remains put it beyonddoubt that some of the sandstones are Triassic, if the 28 MORAYSHIRE sandstone containing Elginia be not Permian. Owing totheir excellence for building purposes, both the UpperOld Red and the Triassic Sandstones have been
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