Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain ... with Plates of Characteristic Fossils: Preceded by a Description of the Geological Structure of Great Britain and Its Counties
Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain ... with Plates of Characteristic Fossils: Preceded by a Description of the Geological Structure of Great Britain and Its Counties
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...Essendine, and boulder-clay and drift gravels are scattered over much of the area. Shropshire. Map 25. Area 859,516 acres. In this county there is great variety of geological formations and physical features. The Wrekin, a dome-shaped hill which rises to 1335 feet, has been claimed by Dr. C. Callaway as the oldest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...Essendine, and boulder-clay and drift gravels are scattered over much of the area. Shropshire. Map 25. Area 859,516 acres. In this county there is great variety of geological formations and physical features. The Wrekin, a dome-shaped hill which rises to 1335 feet, has been claimed by Dr. C. Callaway as the oldest mountain in England; on its borders the gneiss of Primrose Hill and the schists of Rushton may represent some of the oldest known rocks, while the Wrekin itself is largely formed of rhyolitic lavas (Uriconian) of Pre-Cambrian age. Similar rocks occur at Caer Caradoc, and a granitoid rock is found at Cardington Hill. In the charming moorland regions of Church Stretton, the Longmynd is formed of purple slates, grits and conglomerate, also of Pre-Cambrian age, and these Longmyndian rocks occur in Haughmond Hill. Flanking the Wrekin, Cambrian quartzites form the base of the Comley (Hollybush) sandstone, which yields Olenellus and JParadoxid.es, and above come the Shineton shales (Tremadoc) with Dictyonema. West of the Longmynd rise the Ordovician rocks of the Shelve district; at the base the Arenig Stiper stones are formed of quartzite, with the overlying Llandilo series of Meadowtown and the Bala series of Chirbury. Silver-lead and zinc-ores occur in this district, and barytes has been worked at Wotherton. To the east of the Longmynd is the famous region of Caradoc, where Ordovician rocks rest unconformably on the Cambrian and older rocks, and comprise the Hoar Edge grits, the Chatwall sandstones, and flags and shales, all belonging to the Bala series. Flo. 14.--THE STIPER STONES. Further east we find a succession of Silurian rocks (see Fig. 15), from the Llandovery to the Old Red sandstone. The gorge of the Severn between Buildwas and Ironbridge has...
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