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
310. View of Volcanic Neck piercing and overlain by the
Plateau-Basalts, Stromö, entrance of Vaagöfjord, Faroe
Islands. (From a photograph by Colonel Evans) 294
311. Section of the same Neck as that shown in Fig. 310 295
312. Volcanic Neck close to that shown in Figs. 310 and 311 296
313. Section of wall of another Neck of agglomerate in the same
group with those represented in Figs. 310, 311, and 312 296
314. View of "Segregation-Veins" in a dolerite sill, Portrush,
Antrim 300
315. View of Fair Head, from the east, showing the main upper
sill and a thinner sheet cropping out along the talus 301
316. View of Fair Head from the shore. (From a photograph by Mr.
R. Welch) 302
317. Section at Farragandoo cliff, west end of Fair Head, showing
the rapid splitting up and dying out of an Intrusive Sheet
slope 304
318. View of the Trotternish Coast, showing the position of the
band of Sills 305
319. Columnar Sill intrusive in Jurassic Strata east of
Kilmartin, Trotternish, Skye 306
320. View of the northern precipice (500 feet high) of the
largest of the Shiant Isles. (From a photograph by Colonel
Evans) 308
321. Section of thin Intrusive Sheets and Veins in carbonaceous
shales lying among the Plateau-basalts, cliffs north of
Ach na Hannait, between Portree Bay and Loch Sligachan 311
322. Upper part of Sill, Moonen Bay, Waternish, Skye, showing the
divergence of veins 313
323. Section of the base of the Basalt-plateau with sill and
dykes, Sound of Soa, Skye 314
324. Section of Dolerite Sill cut by another sill, both being
traversed by dykes, Rudh' an Iasgaich, western side of
Sleat, Skye 316
325. Section to show Bedded and Intrusive Sheets, Eigg 318
326. Ground plan of Sills at Ben Hiant, Ardnamurchan. 321
327. Section of two Sills in schistose grits, west end of Beinn
na h-Urchrach, Ardnamurchan 322
328. Sill traversing bedded Basalts, cliffs of Stromö, at
entrance of Vaagöfjord 323
329. View of the same Sill seen from the channel opposite the
island of Kolter 324
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