POPULAR GEOLOGY. 



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Feet. Indies. Foet. Inches 



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Black Shale 



36 yards Band Coal 



Seat earth 



Black Shale, &c: 



Shale with " Bauni Pots " .... 



Pecten Shale 



Hard Bed Coal 



Seat- earth or Ganister and Shales .... 



Middle Band Coal .... , 



Seat-earth 



Stone, and Black Shale with Ironstone 



1st Hard Bands " Unio Beds " 



Black Shale 



2nd Hard Bands 



Black Shale 



3rd Hard Bands 



Black Shiver Shales 



Gray Shales 



Soft Bed Coal 



Seat-earth 



Band Stone 



Ivag and Light-coloured Shale 



Thin band of Shale containing " Unios " 

 Discovered at Whitegate last Spring, by 

 Mr. P. A. Leyland 

 Light-coloured Shales ... 



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Millstone Gkit below. 





 

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580 G 



This section agrees j^retty nearly with sections taken at Catherine Slack 

 and other places in these Lower Coal Measures. The lowest bed of these 

 shales may be seen reposing on the Millstone-grit in the cutting near 

 Elland Station. The whole of the strata from the soft bed coal to the 

 grit-rocks were laid bare at Whitegate, last spring, while some men were 

 digging a drain. Mr. F. A. Leyland happened to be going up Whitegate 

 at the time, along with some friends, when by chance, he found a piece of 

 a nodule, as light as wood, containing fossil shells. A few days after I 

 met Mr. Leyland and he told me of his good fortune, and kindly volun- 

 teered to go with me to Whitegate I called uj-jon him the day after and 

 examined the shells. They were " Unios," but as they are now thought 

 to be of marine origin by many eminent authorities they are termed 

 Anthracosia; and better specimens I never met with, not even in the 

 Low-moor Ironstone beds, Avhere they occiu* almost perfect. We went 

 to Whitegate and after a long search I fomid a few compressed specimens, 



