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III.—Spirorbis - Limestones in the ‘Permian’ of the South Staffordshire and Warwickshire Coal-fields1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. C. Cantrill
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A period of nearly forty years has now elapsed since several bands of Spirorbis-limestone were met with in the so-called Lower Permian rocks of the South Staffordshire Coal-field during the sinking of the Sandwell Park and Hamstead pits in the neighbourhood of West Bromwich. From the published accounts of those sinkings, in the first case by Mr. Henry Johnson, and in the second by Messrs. Meachem and Insley and Dr. Robert Kidston, Spirorbis-limestones appear to have been found at 206 feet above the base of the ‘Permian’ at Sandwell, and at 329 and 795 feet respectively at Hamstead.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 10 , October 1909 , pp. 447 - 454
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1909

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Communicated by permission of the Director of the Geological Survey.

References

page 447 note 2 Mem. Geol. Surv., 1902, pp. 60–4.

page 447 note 3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lv, 1899, p. 97Google Scholar. See p. 111.

page 449 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. li, 1895, p.528.Google Scholar

page 449 note 2 Ibid., vol. lvii, 1901, p. 251.

page 449 note 3 Old Series 1 inch map, 54 N.W.; 6 inch, Worcestershire, 9 N.E.

page 450 note 1 Six inch map, Worcestershire, 10 N.W.

page 451 note 1 Sheets 62 S.E. and 63 S.W.; also The Geology of the Warwickshire Coal-field, 1859, pp. 26–9.

page 451 note 2 Geology of the Country between Atherstone and Charnwood Forest (Mem. Geol. Surv.), 1900, p. 20.

page 451 note 3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. li, 1895, p. 528Google Scholar. See p. 547.

page 451 note 4 See a paper entitled “On the Bore-holes at Coventry”, read before the Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archæologists' Field Club, March 26, 1890. (The reprints are issued without the particulars necessary for more exact citation.)