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Kaolin Tonsteins in the Westphalian of North Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. B. Barnsley ,
J. M. Clowes  and
W. Fowler
G. B. Barnsley
Affiliation:
N.C.B., North Staffordshire Area, Stoke-on-Trent.
J. M. Clowes
Affiliation:
N.C.B., Northumberland and Durham Division, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
W. Fowler
Affiliation:
25, Beverley Avenue, High Cross, Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire.
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Abstract

The character, horizon, and extent of ten kaolin tonsteins occurring in the Westphalian strata of the North Staffordshire Coalfield are described, and four additional horizons considered worthy of further study, when this is possible, are noted. The value of these kaolin tonsteins in correlation, and the possibility that they may fall into two groups having different origins, is briefly discussed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 103 , Issue 6 , December 1966 , pp. 508 - 521
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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