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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12895377944).jpg 1864 <br> HULL AND GREEN MILLSTONE-GRIT <br> 265 <br> M <br> CO <br> is <br> <br> «5 <br> 6 <br> « <br> - <br> C fe»S <br> » – +» <br> <br> Q <br> VM'S'\ <br> o <br> ” 1 <br> - ¢a <br> Fault <br> -a sP a <br> O O J5 <br> M 1-4 00 <br> J-9 <br> pq <br> <br> third bed was seen it did not seem <br> to be above 20 feet in thickness <br> The little coal on the top of this <br> bed has been worked about half a <br> mile to the east of Froghall <br> Yoredale Rocks ” In the anti- <br> clinal space between the Pottery <br> and Wetley Coal-fields no trace of <br> the upper group is to be found <br> Close below the outcrop of the <br> third grit come quartzose sand- <br> stones with all the usual charac- <br> ters of the Yoredale Quartzites <br> In this country where the grit- <br> stones have become so thin and <br> weakly while the chief sandstones <br> of the Yoredale series still keep <br> up their thickness and character <br> a curious change has been brought <br> about in the connexion between <br> scenery and geological structure <br> In the northern districts about The <br> Peak for instance it is the Mill- <br> stone-grit that caps the loftiest <br> hills and forms the boldest ridges <br> while the Yoredale Grits hold a <br> lower place ; here on the other <br> hand the Millstone-grit makes <br> but little show and the Yoredale <br> sandstones stand out well and <br> form all the most marked features <br> in the landscape <br> § 6 Summary <br> We have now traced the Mill- <br> stone-grit from the borders of Lan- <br> cashire and Yorkshire where it <br> contains five thick beds of mass- <br> ive gritstone and reaches a thick- <br> ness of 2800 feet to the borders of <br> the Xorth Staffordshire Coal-fields <br> where only two of these beds are <br> left and where the whole thick- <br> ness is not more than 200 or 300 <br> feet <br> We find the Rough Eock the <br> uppermost bed with one exception <br> The Kinder Scout Grit has at least <br> two thick gritstones with shale between <br> t2 36089518 111261 51125 Page 265 Text v 20 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36089518 1864 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 20 1864 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36089518 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36089518 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-03 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12895377944 2015-08-26 16 57 41 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1864 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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