Identifier: geologicalmagazi2418wood (find matches)
Title: Geological magazine
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Woodward, Henry, 1832-1921, ed
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Publisher: London (etc.) Cambridge University Press
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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lateau, extending like some great line of fortifi-cation almost from the farm of Kinnear to LeuchaiS,—its high,angulai, and nearly vertical front forming one of the most imposingand interesting features of the landscape. To the eastward we findthat these accumulations gradually decrease in height, until, in aseries of gently sloping terraces, they arrive at the sea-level. Thescenery, so to speak, of the Kames is somewhat remarkable ; stand-ing amongst them, and having no standard by which to estimatetheir dimensions, one is apt to be carried away with the feeling thathe is contemplating one of those scenes of mountain grandeur usuallyassociated with landscapes of far greater magnitude. Cones andridges seem hills and mountain chains; little pools seem lakes; andtiny streamlets rivers—impressing the imagination not very differentlyfrom the far vaster features of a Highland district. An examination of the cuttings of the Tay Bridge and Leuchars Geol. Mag. 1877 Decade Jl.Vol.lVPlatel.
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&.D.Delpca.t,Ilel Bark Blue represents present Sea Level, Light Blue shews Sea Level tvith La-nd d^iyressed 200 Feet. Sketch Map of TheNeighijourliood of Newport FifeN.B. To illustrate MT Durhams Paper onKames James Durham—The Karnes of Neio))ort, Fife, 9 railway affords convincing evidence that the gravels of which theseKarnes are composed are not such as could have been formed in theneighbourhood, as they consist almost entirely of fragments of rocksonly to be found far to the north or north-west. A very large pro-portion of the gravel is made up of the following rocks : Mica schist,gneiss, quartz, granite, Old Eed Conglomerate, Old Red Sandstone,with a certain proportion of greenstone, basalt, and various tuffs ;while the rocks of the district consist of trap-rocks confusedly inter-bedded with impure sandstones, probably of Old Red Sandstone age.These cuttings further bring to light the important circumstancethat, while the constituents of the loftier Kames, such as the Castlgeologicalmagazi2418wood

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