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PEOP. C. LAPWORTH ON THE GIEVAN SUCCESSION.
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below, and passing upward regularly into flaggy and more shaly
beds above. These are at once surmounted by the Benan Conglo-
merate.
Fig. 11. — Section across the Ballantrae and Girvan Rocks
of Byne Hill.
S.E.
N.W.
Byne MU,
/
OJte
O. K. S. Conglomerates and sandstones of Old Eed Sandstone age.
Ac. Benan Conglomerate in its ordinary characters.
L. Crushed and altered limestones of doubtful age.
2. Serpentine.
Sy. Syenitic granite of Byne Hill.
//. Faults.
The same beds may be traced a short distance in both directions,
and are possibly cut out to the south-west by a transverse fault
passing through the farmhouse of Drumfairn.
From Byne Hill the Benan Conglomerate is traceable in an
unbroken strip to the sea-shore at Kennedy's Pass (fig. 12). It
varies much in its transverse diameter throughout this extent

but
as it nowhere exhibits any of the naturally underlying limestones,
so far as may be inferred from the phenomena exhibited in the few
exposures upon the hill-slopes, it seems probable that throughout
the whole of this extent its south-western edge is faulted down
against the igneous series of Ballantrae.
The dividing basal fault is well seen where the conglomerate
comes upon the sea-shore, and is traceable for some distance in a
south-westerly direction, running almost parallel with the shore-line.
Where it finally disappears beneath the water it is joined at an acute
angle by a second strike-fault coming down the coast-line from
Shalloch and Ardwell. In the angle formed by these two converg-
ing faults there is a grand exhibition of Conglomerate at the
well-known locality of Kennedy's Pass, where it was first studied
by Murchison and Nicol, and where it has been frequently examined
by recent students of the rocks of this region. In the roadway and
cliffs at this point the numerous transverse dislocations which have
affected it admit of easy recognition, and the conglomerate