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The Millstone Grit of Gower

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Emily Dix
Emily Dix
Affiliation:
Bedford College, London.
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THE Millstone Grit described in this paper forms a belt of country about a mile wide, stretching from west-north-west to east-south-east across the north of the Gower Peninsula. Reference is also made to small areas of Millstone Grit preserved in synclines at Oxwich and Porteynon on the south coast of Gower. These areas form the most important outcrops of this formation on the south of the South Wales Coalfield. Further east the Millstone Grit is thinner and it is not exposed for some miles to the east of Swansea Bay, as it is concealed by Mesozoic rocks.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 68 , Issue 12 , December 1931 , pp. 529 - 543
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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