The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, Volume 1 (of 2)Geikie, Archibald
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The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, Volume 1 (of 2)
Geikie, Archibald
Volcanoes -- Great Britain
28. Section of neck filled with massive rock 68
29. Successive shiftings of vents giving rise to double or triple
cones 70
30. Section to show the connection of a neck with a cone and
surrounding bedded tuffs 71
31. Diagram illustrating the gradual emergence of buried volcanic
cones through the influence of prolonged denudation 75
32. Dyke, Vein, and Sill 80
33. Section of Sill or Intrusive Sheet 83
34. Ideal section of three Laccolites. (After Mr. Gilbert) 86
35. Diagram illustrating the stratigraphical relations of the
pre-Cambrian and Cambrian rocks of the North-west Highlands
of Scotland 112
36. Map of a portion of the Lewisian gneiss of Ross-shire 118
37. Section showing the position of sills in the mica-schist series
between Loch Tay and Amulree 124
38. Sketch of crushed basic igneous rock among the schists, E.
side of Porth-tywyn-mawr, E. side of Holyhead Straits 128
39. Section across the Uriconian series of Caer Caradoc 132
40. Map of the volcanic district of St. David's 146
41. Section showing the interstratification of tuff and
conglomerate above Lower Mill, St. David's 154
42. Basic dyke traversing quartz-porphyry and converted into a
kind of slate by cleavage. West side of Llyn Padarn 162
43. Section of well-cleaved tuff, grit and breccia passing up into
rudely-cleaved conglomerate and well-bedded cleaved fine
conglomerate and grit. East side of Llyn Padarn 163
44. Section of Clegyr on the north-east side of Llyn Padarn,
near the lower end 164
45. Section across the Cambrian formations of the Malvern Hills,
showing the position of the intercalated igneous rocks.
After Phillips 170
46. Section across Rhobell Fawr 178
47. Section at the Slate Quarry, Penrhyn Gwyn, north slopes of
Cader Idris 180
48. Sketch-section across Cader Idris 182
49. Section across the Moelwyn Range 185
50. Section across the anticline of Corndon 190
51. Structure in finely-amygdaloidal diabase lava, south of mouth
of Stinchar River, Ayrshire 193
52. View of Knockdolian Hill from the east 194
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