Geology of the Ashbourne & Buxton Branch of the London & North-Western Railway:—Crake Low to Parsley Hay

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I. Introduction In a previous paper read before this Society, I gave a description of the geology of 6 miles of the new Ashbourne & Buxton Railway from Ashbourne to Crake Low. The sections described were in Bunter Sandstone, Boulder-Clay, shales and thin limestones (Yoredale Series of the Geological Survey), and volcanic tuff. The present paper is a continuation of the former one, and deals with the geology of the cuttings (Nos. 9 to 23) in the next 8 miles as far as Parsley Hay. After passing through Yoredale Shales in the second cutting (No. 10), the railway enters the thick beds of Mountain-Limestone, in which it continues as far as Buxton. Several of the cuttings are of considerable length and depth; but, owing in some cases to the folded state of the beds, and in others to their nearly horizontal position, no very great thickness of limestone is seen. It was not found possible to correlate the beds in the different cuttings. Although the limestones in the Cold-Eaton and Heathcote cuttings are somewhat similar in character and are divided up by intercalations of clay, we cannot be certain that they represent the same series of beds. The clay-partings do not in any way correspond. They are farther apart in the Cold-Eaton than in the Heathcote cutting. In the former six wayboards of clay are contained in 230 feet of limestone, and in the latter eight in a little more than 100 feet. The chief points of interest brought to

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