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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1838]. Abstract of Allan, On the rocks in the vicinity of Edinburgh, 1812. CUL-DAR5.B37v. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR5 contains Edinburgh lecture notes, 1825-7; class cards; zoological walk to Portobello; geological notes, Shrewsbury & with Sedgwick; alluvium; Salisbury Craigs; for glacier papers, 1839-42.

Allan, Thomas. 1812. On the rocks in the vicinity of Edinburgh. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 6: 405-433, 1pl.

[B37v]

Edinburgh Royal Society Transacts – Allan on Vicinity of Edinburgh p. 415 (vol VII)?

- slickensides not continued into basalt –

{Every one considers it injected though no proofs offered

Does not state whether first elevated

There is geographical description of Hill

{p. 417 Veins of segregation in the greenstone "deeply waved, & generally follow direction of bed" coloured red not otherwise different.

Sandstone – Basalt traversed by dyke

Sandstone in masses in great dyke which narrows at S lined with masses embedded in it having thus usual dip – surely part of framework

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