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I.—On the Contents of a Hyæna's Den on the Great Doward, Whitchurch, Ross1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

The hill of the Great Doward rises above the right bank of the river Wye to the N.W. of the well-known limestone escarpment of Symonds Yat. The section of the Great Doward, geologically considered, is best seen by ascending the hill from theMonmouth road, a quarter of a mile from the village of Whitchurch. The basement beds consist of Upper Old Red Sandstone, which thins out considerably in its Southern strike from the Brecon Vans; and we pass upwards over the Old Red Conglomerate, and the Passage beds of the Upper Yellow Sandstones, while the hill itself is capped by the Lower Limestone shale and the Carboniferous Limestone.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1871

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Footnotes

1

Read before the British Association, Edinburgh, August, 1871.

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1 Read before the British Association, Edinburgh, August, 1871.