Coal 
Mea- 
sures. 
Carb. 
Lime- 
stone 
Series. 
Calci- 
ferous 
Sand- 
stone 
Series. 
Cy ep 
re ” 
SS ——— 
—— ny 
(aS 
SCOTLAND. 
Red Sandstone se- 
ries—Wo fossils. 
Coal measures — 
Coals, Shales, and 
Tronstones, fossil- 
iferous. 
Sandstones and 
Tronstones — Ma- 
rine Fossils. 
Coals. 
a. Upper Group— 
Marine with occa- 
sional brackish wa- 
ter deposits. 
6, Middle Group— 
Coals and _ Iron- 
stones, few Marine 
Fossils. 
Shales. 
c. Lower Group— 
— Coal, Marine. 
a. Upper or Ce- 
ment stone Group 
— Burdie House 
beds and Wardie 
Shales. 
6. Lower Group— 
Red Sandstonesand 
Conglomerates. 
Upper Old Red 
Sandstone—? Car- 
boniferous. 
Tuedian beds. 
al 
PALHOZOIC. 
CARBONIFEROUS GROUP. 
NORTHUMBER- 
LAND AND 
DURHAM. 
a. Upper mea- 
sures with thin 
Coals. 
6. Middle mea- 
sures with thick 
Coals,and Plants. 
ec. Lower mea- 
suresor Ganister 
beds with thin 
Coals. 
A series of alter- 
nating Grits and 
Shales. 
Yoredale Rocks. 
Limestones with 
Coals, Shales, 
Grits, and Sand- 
stones. 
White and Gray 
Sandstones with 
Greenish Gray 
Shales, Cement 
stones and Lime- 
stones, 
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LANCASHIRE, 
DERBYSHIRE, AND 
SOUTH YORKSHIRE, 
a. Upper measures 
with Limestones and 
thin Coals. 
6. Sandstones. 
c. Middle measures 
with thick Coals. 
d. Lower measures 
or Ganister beds with 
thin Coals. 
a, Grits and Shales. 
6. Flags (Hasling- 
ton Flags). 
c. Shales, Grits, and 
Kinder-Scout Grit. 
a. Shales — Yore- 
dale beds. 
6. Shales with thinly 
bedded hard fine Sand- 
stones(Yoredale Sand- 
stones). 
c. Black Shales with 
thin earthy Lime- 
stones. 
Limestones and 
Shales. 
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SOUTH WALES, 
CENTRAL AND 
WEST OF 
ENGLAND. 
a, Upper Coal mea- 
sures with bed of 
Spirorbis Limestone 
in places. 
6. Pennant—Mid- 
dle Coal measures 
S. Wales and Bris- 
tol Coal fields. 
Solid Red and Gray 
fine-grained Grits 
and Conglomerates 
—(here and there 
thin beds of coal). 
a. Upper Shales 
and impure Lime- 
stones. 
6. Thick bedded 
Limestones. 
ec. Lower Lime- 
stone Shales, thin 
bedded Limestones 
and Sandy Shales. 
Northern Series. 
Upper and Mid- 
dle Coal measures 
with thick Coals. 
Lower Coal mea- 
sures with Ma- 
rine Shells. 
Millstone Grit. 
a. Shales with 
Tronstones, Yel- 
low Sandstones 
(Fermanagh). 
6. Upper Lime- 
stone. 
ce. Calp or Mid- 
dle Limestone. 
Lower Lime- 
stone. 
Shales, Sand- 
stones, and Con- 
glomerates. 
IRELAND. 
Southern Series. 
Middle 
thick Coals. 
Coal measures with 
Lower Coal measures with thin 
Coals and Marine Shells. 
Flagstone Series. 
Shale Series. 
S. W. Counties, 
Carboniferous 
Limestone. 
Lower Carbon- 
iferous Slate 
with Coomhola 
Grits. 
S. E. Counties. 
Upper Lime- 
stone. 
Calp or Mid- 
dle Lime- 
stone. 
Lower Lime- 
stone. 
Lower Lime- 
stone Shales. 
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