Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey ... and Museum of Practical GeologyH.M. Stationery Office, 1934 A new series, embracing annual "scientific results" and certain administrative statistics. |
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... latter yielded a fairly good assemblage of marine fossils . In the district of Bandrum , north - west of Dunfermline , Fife- shire , a considerable number of borings has been put down to prove the Dunfermline group of coal seams . A ...
... latter yielded a fairly good assemblage of marine fossils . In the district of Bandrum , north - west of Dunfermline , Fife- shire , a considerable number of borings has been put down to prove the Dunfermline group of coal seams . A ...
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... latter being from six to ten times as abundant as the former . Flesh is rotten freestone which is found in contact with the clays of the Upper Estuarine Series . Bastard Freestone is oolitic freestone with crystalline calcite between ...
... latter being from six to ten times as abundant as the former . Flesh is rotten freestone which is found in contact with the clays of the Upper Estuarine Series . Bastard Freestone is oolitic freestone with crystalline calcite between ...
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... latter finds that Lower Gault ( Dentatus Zone ) is definitely present at Upware . The pre- viously published records of the fauna had suggested that the whole of the Upware Gault was Upper . At Cottenham a well has been sunk through 19 ...
... latter finds that Lower Gault ( Dentatus Zone ) is definitely present at Upware . The pre- viously published records of the fauna had suggested that the whole of the Upware Gault was Upper . At Cottenham a well has been sunk through 19 ...
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... latter rock includes patches of unaltered pale - grey , crinoidal limestone , occasionally very fossiliferous . The Whitehead Limestone near Mitcheldean is from 30 to 60 ft . in thickness and includes compact , gritty , and oolitic ...
... latter rock includes patches of unaltered pale - grey , crinoidal limestone , occasionally very fossiliferous . The Whitehead Limestone near Mitcheldean is from 30 to 60 ft . in thickness and includes compact , gritty , and oolitic ...
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... latter two have yielded Monograpti , for which Mr. Anderson has discovered a new locality in the Ramshope Burn : specific deter- minations are not yet to hand . Cementstone Group . - The basal member of this assemblage -the Lower ...
... latter two have yielded Monograpti , for which Mr. Anderson has discovered a new locality in the Ramshope Burn : specific deter- minations are not yet to hand . Cementstone Group . - The basal member of this assemblage -the Lower ...
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Page 51 - 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 36 - Salmon was chairman, was appointed by the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland...
Page 4 - Presented by the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, February 1944.
Page 48 - The Lower Carboniferous Succession in the North-West of England.
Page 78 - The succession of fossil plants in the Millstone Grit and the lower portion of the Coal Measures of the South Wales Coalfield (near Swansea) and a comparison with that of other areas: Paleontographica, v.
Page 3 - Conference of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
Page 60 - The Group of large Carbonicolas which characterize the Base of the Middle Coal Measures. — Summ. Prog. Geol. Surv.
Page 1 - To the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIPS, WE, the Forest Products Research Board, beg leave to present our report for the year 1931.
Page 61 - A Revision of the Non-Marine Lamellibranchs of the Coal Measures