I quote. According to Professor Wegener the continents are really afloat. He considers the earth's crust to consist of (a ) a lower, heavier stratum, of which the average upper level is the sea bed; (b) an upper, lighter stratum, of which the continents are formed. His idea is that the continents float, like ice- floes, on and partly in, the lower stratum, They are not stationary, and they drift in tory movement. America, he says, has parted company quite recently from the old world and drifted west; he points to the parallelism of their Atlantic coasts. In Carboniferous times he sees an Antarctic continent which included parts of South America, South Africa, and Australia and New Zealand moved to the east, South America broke apart from Africa, and India drifted away to the north. The long ranges of mountains boardering continents(e.g., the Andes) he regards as crumplings which would be rucked up as the continental edge ploughed its way through the substratum
. RECENT LITERATURE WILL SUPPLY THE ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST THIS THEORY. ( THE ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY BY MARY A. JOHNSTONE 1927 )
Most did not agree with professor Wegener and this statement was made only 85 Years ago !
The rock to the left has the same indentations as the split rock to the right they both attract a small magnet strongly, i believe they must a be basaltic rock but ive never come across this surface pattern before. Also one was dug from the gavel beds at Stainton the other found in Ormesby beck, but ime certain it originated from the same gravel bed in that location.
I first thought as can be viewed in earlier posts, that most of the stone in the possible structure was mostly yellow sandstone. But it seems that the stone is of all kinds, but i have noticed after washing and drying the stones i have had to remove to get further in to the bank, the stones are of very different colours including blue ,violet , red , and yellow, and all have one thing in common they all display well preserved fossils.
This is what i believe is part of the same structure, on the opposite side of the beck, what i think has happened is the tree roots from the large tree above over a long time of slow growth have caused the sandstone structure? to splay to the left and right, as well as pushing some of the sandstone down into the gravel bed it sat on.
The image above shows one of at least two large sandstone pieces that have been undisturbed by the roots and sit on the gravel bed in the same way as the structure? on the opposite bank, a believe it will go a lot deeper into the clay deposits, its going to be very hard to expose further as the roots of the dead tree above are huge.
This recently found deposit was initially blue, but over the last week has turned green, this may be due to a chemical reaction to being exposed ?
The stone to the rear attracts the small magnet, i think this stone unlike the yellow sandstone viewed to the front is whinstone, the next two stones appear to be grey limestone, then the yellow stones.
The highest stone in this image appears to have been rounded ie no sharp edges.
My worry is that if the bank collapses it will destroy what could be a very important discovery.
