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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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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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.
