Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T17:15:50.207Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Marine Horizons in the Coal Measures of South Wales1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Emily Dix
Affiliation:
University College of Swansea.
A. E. Trueman
Affiliation:
University College of Swansea.

Extract

The fossils of the Coal Measures of South Wales have probably not been studied so systematically or for so many years as those of certain coalfields of he north of England, and it is only within recent years that any marked progress has been made in their investigation; this is especially true of the marine fossils.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1928

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

1

The substance of this paper was read before Section C of the British Association at Leeds, 1927.

References

REFERENCES TO LITERATURE

Bevan, G. P. (1858). “On the Marine Shells of the South Wales Coal Basin,” The Geologist, vol. i.Google Scholar
Culpin, H. (1911). “Marine Bands in the Yorkshire Coal Measures,” Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1910, p. 610.Google Scholar
Davies, D. F., Dix, E., and Trueman, A. E. (1928). “Boreholes in the Cwmgorse Valley,” Proc. South Wales Inst. Eng., vol. xliv, p. 37.Google Scholar
Davies, J. H., and Trueman, A. E. (1927). “A Revision of the Non-marine Lamellibranchs of the Coal Measures, etc.,” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxxxiii, p. 210.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dyson, W. (1911). “The Occurrence of Marine Bands at Maltby,” Rept. Brit. Assoc. for 1910, p. 610.Google Scholar
George, T. N., and Trueman, A. E. (1925). “Correlation of the Coal Measures in the Western Portion of the South Wales Coalfield: Part iv, The Coal Measures of East Pembrokeshire,” Proc. South Wales Inst. Eng., vol. xli, p. 409.Google Scholar
Gibson, W. (1925). “The Geology of the Country around Stoke-upon-Trent,” Mem. Geol. Surv.Google Scholar
Hind, W., and Stobbs, J. T. (1905). “The Marine Beds in the Coal Measures of North Staffordshire,” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxi, p. 495.Google Scholar
Howell, A. (1927). “The Correlation of the Coals of the Lower Coal Series in the East Glamorgan and Monmouthshire Coalfield,” Proc. South Wales Inst. Eng., vol. xliii, p. 321.Google Scholar
North, F. J. (1926). Coal and the Coalfields in Wales.Google Scholar
Robertson, T. (1927). “The Country around Abergavenny,” Mem. Geol. Surv., 2nd ed.Google Scholar
Salter, J. W. (1861). “On the Fossils of the South Wales Coalfield: Part i, Ironstones of the ‘North Crop’” (in “Iron Ores of Great Britain”, pt. iii, p. 219 ), Mem. Geol. Surv.Google Scholar
Strahan, A., and others (1907). “The Country around Ammanford,” Mem. Geol. Surv.Google Scholar
Strahan, A., and others (1914). “The Country around Haverfordwest,” Mem. Geol. Surv.Google Scholar
Wilson, G. V. (1926), “The Concealed Coalfield of Yorkshire and Nottingham-shire,” Mem. Geol. Surv., 2nd ed.Google Scholar
Wilson, G. V. (1927). “The Eastern Boundary of the Concealed Coalfield of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire,” Summ. Frog. Geol. Surv. for 1926, App. vii, p. 138.Google Scholar