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On the West Cumberland Brockram and its Associated Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Bernard Smith
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For many years the breccia of Western Cumberland has been known locally as “ The Conglomerate ”, under which name it figures largely in hundreds of records of borings put down in search of haematite or coal. Since, however, its components consist in general of angular and subangular rather than rounded fragments, the term “ conglomerate ” is misleading; hence the deposit is here referred to as “ Brockram ” (broken rock), a descriptive lithological term applied to rocks of similar origin in the Vale of Eden and of definite significance to British geologists.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 61 , Issue 7 , July 1924 , pp. 289 - 308
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1924

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page 292 note 2 The Limestone was traced as far inland as this point by Murchison and Harkness: op. cit., p. 155.

page 294 note 1 Permission to publish details has been granted by Mr. J. Graham, of the Millom and Askham Co., Ltd.

page 294 note 2 “ The Haematite Iron Ores of West Cumberland, Lancashire, etc.”: op. cit., pp. 17, 18.

page 294 note 3 The records read:—

B.H. 1. Limestone breccia.

B.H. 3. Brown and grey limestone, loughy, 6 ft.

B.H. 5. Grey and brown limestone.

B.H. 6. Very coarse limestone, with nodules, 8 ft.; coarse yellow limestone, 7 ft. 8 in.; coarse variegated limestone, 13 ft. 2 in.

B.H. 7. Brown decomposed limestone [angular lumps of limestone as breccia in a yellow magnesian matrix], 30 ft. 2 in.

B.H. 8. Dark-grey honeycombed limestone, lift. 9 in.; grey honeycombed limestone, 35 ft. 7 in.

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page 307 note 7 Judging from numerous boreholes the St. Bees facies in the St. Bees–Calder Bridge area, varies between 400 and 800 ft. in thickness, the latter occurring at St. Bees Headland. At Seascale, however, the record showed thick sandstones with only one bed of shale (5 ft.), to a depth of 2,072ft. 11 in., on sandstone with shale joints or partings to a depth of 3,200 ft. It appears to be impossible to draw a definite line between the two facies.

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