 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1857 - 526 pages
...structural characters are changed. Coal for some distance from it is valueless ; limestone near to it will not burn into lime ; and shale and sandstone are indurated. Besides, at the point of contact, sandstones, shales, and limestones are much jointed and fissured,... | |
 | John Gilbert Baker, George Ralph Tate, George Tate - Botany - 1868 - 338 pages
...Lowick coal field and is traceable westward to Leitham, the whole ascertained course being about 14 miles. The Beadnell Dike is well exposed on the coast,...four miles inland as far as the Newham Station. The JTotvick Dike is only 4 feet wide, sloping south 95°, and with a direction of north 80° east. It... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1872 - 508 pages
...greatly changed ; coal, for some distance from it, is valueless ; limestone, near to it, cannot be burnt into lime and shale and sandstone are indurated. The...qualities between the basalt and the stratified rocks which it penetrates, is well illustrated by this dyke. Its width is generally twenty-five feet, and... | |
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... Kyloe church, where it has a direction of S. 80° "W., and is from 20 to 60 feet wide, increasing in width as it descends ; and in one part it is covered by sandstones and shales. It cuts through the Lowick coal field and is traceable westward to... 