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Devonian Limestone Pebbles in Central Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Philip F. Hutchins
Philip F. Hutchins
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
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Abstract

The presence of locally abundant pebbles of Middle Devonian Limestone in the New Red Sandstone near North Tawton, Devonshire, is recorded. It is suggested that these were derived in Permian times from a nearby outcrop of Devonian limestones which projected through the Culm Measures of the mid-Devon syncline.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 95 , Issue 2 , April 1958 , pp. 119 - 124
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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