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VI.—The Upper Trias of Leicestershire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. R. Horwood
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Extract

The economic resources of the Trias as a whole are not great, if we exclude the two main industries (bricks and gypsum), but they are of interest from a practical standpoint, so that a short summary will be given here.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 1916 , pp. 456 - 462
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1916

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References

1 Locally some thick-bedded skerries have been utilized in some cases.Google Scholar

1 The stone was used for threshing-floors at Orton, Austrey, Copt Oak, Charley, where bricks were also made.Google Scholar

2 Fetching at one time 10s. a ton.Google Scholar

1 The marls are impervious and dry, the sandstones pervious, 60,000 gallons per hour being obtained from waterstones at Ellistown at a depth of 300 feet, and at a depth of 670 feet in another boring pure limpid water rose 40 feet above the borehole.Google Scholar