Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood: Geological and Historical; with the Geology of the Bass Rock, Volumen2

ages amid ancient Anomia ephippium Arthur Seat Bass beach beds beneath bivalve boulder-clay boulders Brachiopoda brick-clays broken Calton Carboniferous Castle centuries chapel character church clay Coal Measures coal-field coast Crags curious deep denuding deposit depth district Edinburgh erect existing fathoms feet Figget fragments Frith furnished geologic geologist Glenorchy Granton gravel greatly greenstone Greyfriars hills hollow hundred immediately island lacustrine laid lake Laminarian land least Leith Littoral Littoral zone living lower marked mass Meadows mile molluscs neighbourhood neighbouring North British Railway numerous occupied occur Old Red Old Red Sandstone oysters Paleozoic period Plutonic portion Portobello precipices present remains Restalrig rising rock sand sandstone scarce scene Scotland Scottish sea-bottom seems shale shells shore Siccar Point side sloping species specimens stone stood strata stratified stratum surface thousand tide tion tract trap trap-rocks trees upheaval upper valley valves waves zone