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III.—Denudation of the Coalbrook-dale Coal-field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Daniel Jones
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Although the Coalbrook-dale Coal-field has received a large share of the attention of geologists, the progress of mining operations reveals new facts from time to time, enabling us to explain away some of the difficulties which have beset earlier writers.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 83 , May 1871 , pp. 200 - 208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1871

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References

page 201 note 1 Murchison's Silurian System, 1839, 4to. p. 86, etc.Google Scholar

page 201 note 2 Prestwich, Trans. Geol. Soc. London, 1840, 2nd ser. vol. v. p. 413.Google Scholar

page 201 note 3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Society, 1861, vol. xvii. p. 457.Google Scholar

page 201 note 4 Prestwich on the Geology of Coalbrook-dale, Geol Trans., vol. v.Google Scholar

page 203 note 1 The limestone was at that time supposed to be of freshwater origin.

page 204 note 1 In this I find ray views at variance with those of Mr. Randall, expressed in his 13th letter to the Mining Journal, where he says, “The whole of the Coal-strata found in the Halesfield Pits of the Madeley Wood Company was saved from denudation by the mere fact of its having been let down by faults below the same strata which suffered from denudation in the neighbouring field of Stirchley,’ etc.