The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, Volume 2 (of 2)Geikie, Archibald
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The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, Volume 2 (of 2)
Geikie, Archibald
Volcanoes -- Great Britain
210. View of small neck in Calciferous Sandstones, on the shore,
three miles east from St. Andrews 72
211. Ground-plan of Permian volcanic vents 73
212. Small neck in Calciferous Sandstones a little east from the
"Rock and Spindle," two and a half miles east from St.
Andrews 74
213. Plan of volcanic necks at Kellie Law, East of Fife, on the
scale of three inches to one mile 75
214. Plan of the craters in Volcanello, Lipari Islands 75
215. Section of the strata at the edge of the volcanic vent on
the east side of Elie Harbour 76
216. Agglomerate of neck on shore at Ardross, two miles east from
Elie 77
217. Ground-plan of volcanic neck, Elie Harbour, showing circular
disposition of the stratification 80
218. Section across the great vent of Kincraig, Elie, on a true
scale, vertical and horizontal, of six inches to a mile 81
219. Dyke in volcanic neck, on the beach, St. Monans 82
220. Section of part of crater rim, Island of Volcano 83
221. Dyke rising through the agglomerate of a volcanic vent;
Kincraig, Elie 84
222. Radiating columnar dyke in the tuff of a volcanic vent. Rock
and Spindle, two and a half miles east from St. Andrews 86
223. View of part of the shore front of the great vent at
Kincraig, looking westward, with the columnar basalt in
front 88
224. Plan of volcanic neck on beach near St. Monans 89
225. Columnar basalt in the neck of Kincraig, Elie, seen from the
west 90
226. Section across Largo Law 91
227. Vein of "white-trap" cutting black carbonaceous shales, a
little west from St. Monans Church 92
228. Section at Belvedere, S. W. of Exeter 97
229. Diagram to show the unconformability and overlap of the
Permian rocks in the Crediton Valley 97
230. Section of the volcanic series at Kellerton, Devonshire 98
231. Section of agglomerate overlain with sandstone and andesite,
Posbury, Crediton 99
232. Diagrammatic section across Titterstone Clee Hill 102
233. Dyke on the south-east coast of the Island of Mull 119
234. Fissure left by the weathering out of a dyke 120
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