The Geology of the South Wales Coal-field ...: The country around Cardiff (Sheet 263 of the map), by Aubrey Strahan and T. C. Cantrill. 1902. 2d ed. 1912 |
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... Rhymney River . West of the Rhym- ney River . Fossils 5 CHAPTER III . CHAPTER IV . OLD RED SANDSTONE . East of the Taff . West of the Taff CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS . Carboniferous Limestone . Pentyrch . South of the Ely Valley . The Wolves ...
... Rhymney River . West of the Rhym- ney River . Fossils 5 CHAPTER III . CHAPTER IV . OLD RED SANDSTONE . East of the Taff . West of the Taff CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS . Carboniferous Limestone . Pentyrch . South of the Ely Valley . The Wolves ...
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... Rhymney , Taff and Ely rivers , and the rocky coast from Penarth to Porthkerry ; inland it takes in a short length of the limestone - escarpment of the south side of the Coal Field , and part of the broad Vale of Glamorgan ; to the ...
... Rhymney , Taff and Ely rivers , and the rocky coast from Penarth to Porthkerry ; inland it takes in a short length of the limestone - escarpment of the south side of the Coal Field , and part of the broad Vale of Glamorgan ; to the ...
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... Rhymney , and which was joined on its journey by contributions from the principal hill - ranges in the Coal Field . As will be shown , the present limit of this deposit probably coincides pretty closely with its original margin . Among ...
... Rhymney , and which was joined on its journey by contributions from the principal hill - ranges in the Coal Field . As will be shown , the present limit of this deposit probably coincides pretty closely with its original margin . Among ...
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... Rhymney River about two miles north of Cardiff . Their outcrop was first detected in 1861 by the Rev. Norman Glass , who recognised the Silurian age of the fossils , and sent specimens for confirmation to Murchison and Salter . In 1879 ...
... Rhymney River about two miles north of Cardiff . Their outcrop was first detected in 1861 by the Rev. Norman Glass , who recognised the Silurian age of the fossils , and sent specimens for confirmation to Murchison and Salter . In 1879 ...
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... Rhymney River - Rumney . † The lowest rocks of this portion of the inlier are exposed in the banks of the Rhymney River at low tide close to the bridge . They were found by Professor Sollas to consist of greyish mudstones passing into ...
... Rhymney River - Rumney . † The lowest rocks of this portion of the inlier are exposed in the banks of the Rhymney River at low tide close to the bridge . They were found by Professor Sollas to consist of greyish mudstones passing into ...
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anticline Assoc Avicula contorta bands Barry Island BECHE black shales blue breccia Bristol Cadoxton calcareous carbonate Carboniferous Limestone Cardiff Cardiff Museum Cardiff Nat cliff Coal containing deposits Drift east Ely Valley excavation exposed Fagan's fault feet thick flaggy fossils fragments Geol Geological Survey Glacial gravel green marls grey grit Ibid inches inlier Journ Keuper Marl Lavernock Point Leckwith Lias Liassic lime litoral lower Lower Penarth Ludlow mile mudstones neighbourhood occur Old Red Sandstone oolitic Ordnance Datum Ostrea Ostrea-beds outcrop outlier peat pebbles Pecten Penarth Pentyrch planorbis pre-Triassic probably Proc Quart Radyr red marl Rhætic Rhætic beds Rhætic group Rhymney Rhymney Railway Roath Rumney sand sandy Sheet side Silurian Silurian rocks Somerset South Wales stone Storrie Sully Island surface T. C. CANTRILL Taff thin Trans Trias Triassic Triassic conglomerate tuff upper volcanic water-bed Wenlock Wenvoe yards
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Page 127 - FREDERICK M°CoY, FGS One vol., Royal 410. Plates, /i. is. A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN FOSSILS contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Portrait of PROFESSOR SEDGWICK.
Page 114 - On the Sedimentary Deposits which occupy the western parts of Shropshire and Herefordshire, and are prolonged from NE to SW, through Radnor, Brecknock, and Caennarthenshire, with descriptions of the accompanying rocks of intrusive or igneous characters.
Page iv - Docks, where conclusive evidence was obtained of a subsidence of the land of upwards of 50 feet during and since Neolithic times. In this investigation also Mr. Storrie gave valuable assistance. The Map is issued in two editions. On the edition for Solid Geology the Glacial Drift is omitted, while on the Drift edition the areas occupied by Drift are coloured, as well as those portions of solid geology which are not concealed by the Drift. Manuscript six-inch maps, geologically coloured, are deposited...
Page 116 - On the Characters of the Beds of Clay immediately below the Coal-seams of South Wales, and on the occurrence of Boulders of Coal in the Pennant Grit of that District.
Page 113 - A Geological Essay on the imperfect evidence in support of a Theory of the Earth, deducible either from its general Structure, or from the Changes produced on its Surface by the operation of existing causes.
Page 32 - ... the calcareous rock assumes its usual highly fossiliferous character. That the little vent from which the discharges took place lay to the westward, under what is now the Bristol Channel, may be inferred from the disappearance of the volcanic zone as the ground is traversed in the opposite direction. Fragments of the amygdaloid were found by Mr. SPENCER PERCEVAL at the Tollgate, which show that this rock extends inland for a mile and a half. But immediately to the east over the bare limestone...
Page 128 - Paragenetic formations of carbonate of lime and oxide of iron, and of quartz and oxide of iron, at the Mwyndy iron mines, Glamorganshire (Illustrated) FOSTER.
Page 31 - Weston-super-Mare [E. 3212 (23)], is a finegrained, chocolate-coloured rock, composed of pseuaomorphs after olivine, and probably augite, in a groundmass showing microlitic structure. The phenocrysts are represented by pseudomorphs in carbonate. The microlitic felspars of the groundmass are colourless, but they no longer show their characteristic optical properties. The groundmass is deeply stained with ferric oxide. Although all the minerals have been destroyed, the structure has been perfectly...
Page 129 - A Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian Fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology," and "A Catalogue of the Tertiary and Post Tertiary Fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology
Page 125 - Prof. TR On some Bivalved Entomostraca from the Coal-measures of South Wales. Geol. Mag. vol. vii. p. 214. Reprinted in Trans. Cardiff Nat. Soc. vol. ii. p. 112, pi. iii. (610) JOSEPH, T. On the Changing Character of the Coal from Bituminous to Anthracite between Tredegar Iron Works and the Venallt in Glyn-Neath. Proc. S. Wales Inst. Eng. vol. vii. No. 2, p. 137. Discussion in Nos. 4 and 5, pp. 193, 271 (1871), and vol. viii. No. 1, p. 19 (1872). (611) LEE, JE Notice of remarkable Glacial Striae...