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New Evidence Concerning the Original Order of Deposition of the Longmyndian Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

John Challinor
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During the war a large new quarry was opened in the Longmyndian rocks of Haughmond Hill, Shropshire. It is near the south-east edge of the hill, to the west of the road running north from Upton Magna and one mile from the village. On the sketch-map in the Shrewsbury Memoir (p. 58) two arrows are shown, at about this locality, recording dips of 50° in a south-easterly direction. I was told that there was a very small quarry here before the large quarry was excavated. The present quarry is even larger than that near Haughmond Abbey (Shrewsbury Memoir, p. 48), on the north-west side of the Pre-Cambrian outcrop, and the two quarries offer extensive and splendidly displayed exposures of Longmyndian rocks, one in the coarse-grained Western Longmyndian and the other in the fine-grained Eastern Longmyndian.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , April 1948 , pp. 107 - 109
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1948

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References

1 R. W. Pocock and others, Shrewsbury District, Mem. Geol. Survey, 1938. The other page references, given later in the present article, are also to this work.