OBSERVATIONS ON THE NEW RED SERIES 
OF CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND, WITH - 
ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO CLASSIFICATION. 
(Read at the Penrith Annual Meeting of the Cumberland and Westmorland 
Association in Fune, 1892, and at the Edinburgh Meeting of the British ° 
Association in August of the same year.) 
By J. G. GOODCHILD, H.M. Grou. Survey, F.G.S., 
Lecturer on Geology and Palzeontology at the Heriot-Watt College. 
CONTENTS. 
Figure 1, Sketch Map of the Geology of Cumberland and Westmorland. 
Introductory Remarks. 
Generalised Succession of British New Red Series. 
_ History of Opinions upon the Classification of the Cumberland Wee 
fed. 
: _ Reasons for adopting the present Classification. 
Local Development. 
Discordance in Cumberland and Westmorland between he Bunter 
Marls and the Strata below. 
Dyas or Lower New Red, and Permian, each used in a restricted 
SENSE, 
Paleontological tspats of the Subject. 
General History of the New Red Series in Cumberland and West- 
morianda, 
Changes of Subsequent Date. 
Some Papers on the New Red Series. 
Table of Lithological Characters and Thicknesses of the New Red 
Series in Cumberland and Westmorland. 
Figure 2, Comparative Sections of English New Red Series, 
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