Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . n in the neck which forms theheadland at the harbour. Alternations of coarse and fine tuff with bands of coarse agglomerate, dipping at angles of 60° and upwards, may be traced round about half of the circle. The incomplete part may have been destroyed by the formation of another contiguous neck immediately to the east. To the west of Earlsferry another large, but also imperfect, circle may be traced in one of the shore necks. A quarter of a mile further west rises the great KSSSo?lgeirCulaxdeposition cliff-line of Kincraig, where a large neck h
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . n in the neck which forms theheadland at the harbour. Alternations of coarse and fine tuff with bands of coarse agglomerate, dipping at angles of 60° and upwards, may be traced round about half of the circle. The incomplete part may have been destroyed by the formation of another contiguous neck immediately to the east. To the west of Earlsferry another large, but also imperfect, circle may be traced in one of the shore necks. A quarter of a mile further west rises the great KSSSo?lgeirCulaxdeposition cliff-line of Kincraig, where a large neck has been t, Tuff of the neck, the arrows showing cut open into a range of precipices 200 feet high, iLSrdsas,tSo5which\eS as well as by a tide-washed platform more than lias been opened. j^f a m^G iong# The inward dip and high angles of the tuff are admirably laid bare along that portion of the coast line. Thesection in which almost every bed can be seen, and where, therefore, there isno need for hypothetical restoration, is as shown in fig. Fig. 7.—Ground-plan of Volcanic Neck,
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