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II.—Notes on the Culm-Measures at Bude, North Cornwall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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During a residence of six weeks at Bude, in the autumn of 1889, I enjoyed the opportunity of studying the Culm-measures exposed in the bold cliffs of that part of the coast of Cornwall. I know of no easily accessible place where the flexures and contortions into which strata have been thrown by earth-movements can be studied with greater advantage. Between Bude-haven and Menachurch Point, a distance of one mile as the crow flies, there are at least eleven synclinal and as many anticlinal folds, presenting a variety of flexures of considerable interest to the geological student.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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References

page 111 note 1 Third Appendix to Fifth Edition of Dana's Mineralogy, p. 77.

page 112 note 1 Memoirs G.S.I. vol. iii. p. 97.

page 113 note 1 The Building of the British Isles, p. 90, footnote.

page 115 note 1 Nature, September 19th, 1889, p. 510.

page 116 note 1 American Journal of Science, 1887, p. 277.

page 116 note 2 Elevation 15, 480 feet.

page 117 note 1 Records G.S.I, vol. x. p. 119.

page 117 note 2 Elevation 5250.