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VI.—Notes on the Whitehaven Sandstone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. V. Holmes
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IT is not surprising that the earlier geological writers on the district north and west of the Silurian and other hills of Lakeland, and between the River Caldew and the Solway, should have arrived at diverse conclusions as to the affinities of certain sandstones and shales of reddish or purple-grey tint, which are now known to occur at various horizons in the Carboniferous series. For this district presents unusual difficulties to an understanding of the disposition of the rocks beneath the Glacial Drift.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 9 , September 1896 , pp. 405 - 413
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1896

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page 405 note 1 I use this term to include all the red rocks between the Coal-measures and the Lias.

page 406 note 1 My own experience in various parts of North Cumberland is given in a short paper “On the distinctive colours of the Carboniferous and Permian or Triassic (Poikilitic) Rocks of North Cumberland”: Trans. Cumb. Assoc., part vii (1881–2), p. 79.

page 406 note 2 Having spoken of the sandstone at Rosegill, near Bullgill railway-station, as “Whitehaven Sandstone” in the paper on the distinctive colours of the Carboniferous and Permian-Triassic rocks already mentioned, it may be well to say that I did so on Dunn's authority, not as the result of my own investigations.

page 408 note 1 Shalk is sometimes written Chalk or Shawk.

page 413 note 1 It may prevent possible misunderstanding to state that the foregoing remarks express simply my own personal views.