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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12961112575).jpg 130 <br> PROCEEDJNGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DeC 23 <br> of the village of Tungiiu twelve miles outside the Taiping gate to <br> the Chung-shan where it attains a height of about 1700 feet and <br> thence descends again forming a range of low hills running through <br> the city from the Taiping-men under the Kulow and ending in some <br> low hiUs outside the west wall near the old Tsingliang-men The <br> dip is towards the S E at an angle of about 30° in the Chung-shan <br> but gradually decreasing at each extremity The bed No 3 as <br> being composed of harder and more compact materials than the <br> others forms the summits of the hills and in the Chung-shan pre- <br> sents a steep escarpment to the N W on the S E face gradually <br> dipping under the later beds Towards the east the upper beds <br> No 4 run up into a small valley formed in the earlier rocks where <br> close by a village called Pah-hwei-miau see section fig 3 p 124 <br> they gradually thin out Here some shafts have been sunk by the <br> Chinese and a small portion of coal extracted from a seam which <br> approaches the surface Coal-mines are also said to have been <br> worked on the upper outcrop of the beds on the S E face of the <br> Chung-shan though when going over the country previously how- <br> ever to receiving the information I did not notice them This <br> upper outcrop is covered to a slight depth with the superficial <br> deposits which mask the sequence <br> Fig 5 ” Section of Chung-slian near Nanking <br> Scale 4 miles to 1 inch <br> Plain of <br> Nanking <br> Said to be <br> Coal <br> Chung- <br> ehan <br> Taiping <br> Gate <br> Chung-shan series Tungting Eocka <br> 1 Red Grits 2 Dark-red Flagstones 3 Quartzose Conglomerate <br> 4 Coal-bearing Rocks overlain by later formations 5 Htematite-bed <br> From the Chung-shan easterly and southerly these rocks dip <br> under the more modern deposits of the plain of Nanking and appear <br> in parts to have undergone considerable denudation At Pah-hwei- <br> miau I searched for some time for the outcrop of the coal-beds; <br> but owing to the manner in which the strata died out against the <br> older rocks it was not visible The mines have been closed for <br> some years although partially worked during the siege of Nanking <br> Water and foul air have accumulated in the pits so as to render <br> descent impossible while most of the old inhabitants have lost their <br> lives during the rebellion or been dispersed over the country From <br> these circumstances I have been unable to obtain a definite idea of <br> the value of this coal-field or of how many workable seams exist <br> Of the seam worked by the Chinese I could learn but little some <br> said it was 3 feet thick some 8 ; but none of the actual miners could <br> be found they having all left the country I was able to obtain a <br> few specimens of the coal which was of a bituminous slightly caking 36102975 111288 51125 Page 130 Text v 25 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36102975 1869 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 25 1869 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36102975 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36102975 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-06 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12961112575 2015-08-26 15 53 43 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1869 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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