Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ehave visited to-day, and which has been read to us by Mr. Pontingfrom the stones of which they are built, this is an attempt tointerpret the still older and not less interesting history of theformation of the various rocks that lie under our feet, and to discussthe probability of that most valuable of the buried rocks —coal—-being found below those newer rocks upon which we stand; asubject which must, I think, be of considerable interest to all of us. In the first place an explanation of the accompanying maps anddiagrams will probably lead to an easier understanding of theremarks that follow. Section A. is a vertical section of the rocks that would be passedthrough if a well was sunk in the neighbourhood of Westbury, withthe names of the different formations belonging to what is calledthe newer or neozoic series. Section B. is a rather more problematicsection, but it shows the succession of the older palaeozoic rocksbelow the newer or upper series—in fact the buried rocks; this
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MAP I.—Geography of the Tiuissrc Period (Keuper), II

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