YORKSHIRE naturalists' UNION. 



Table of the Yorkshire Coal Measures. 



? Upper ) 

 Coal- h2, 

 Measures, j 

 f 51- 



5o- 

 (49- 

 ■^48. 

 (.47- 



720 \ 48, 



Red Beds with Coal Plants of Conisborough Pottery. 



Measures. 



Wickersley, Houghton Common, and Pontefract Rocks. 



Measures. 



Dalton, Brierly, and Ackworth Rockf:. 



Measures containing many irregular Sandstones and thin Coals, 



Shafton or NosterCoal. 



Upper Chevet JRocIc, or equivalent measures. 

 /^Measures with | Measures with 

 I Middle and Sharlston 

 ' LowerChevet \ Top, Low 

 I liocks and I and Yard 

 1^ thin Coals. | Coals. 



Treeton Mock, Oaks Rock, or 

 equivalent measures. 



Measures with Newhill or Steam 

 Coal and Swinton Pottery- 

 Coal. 



Measures. 



Holywell Wood Coal. 



Measures with Houghton Rock. ^ 



Houghton Coals. 



Measures with Ackton Rock. 



Wheatworth Coal. 



Measures. 

 Bateson's Bed. 

 Measures with Castleford 

 Four-Foot Coal. 

 V41. Woolley Edge Rock, or equivalent measures. 

 40. Ashton Common, Wath Wood, Woodmoor, and Wakefield Muck 

 Coals. 



Measures. Measures. "^ 



Two-foot Coal. 



Measures. 



Abdy or Winter Coal. 



54° - 



o a. 



. S 3 



I X. O 



r Measures. 

 Foxearth Coal. 

 Measures. 

 Sough or Yard Coal. 



Measures. 

 Furnace Coal. 



Measures. 

 Beamshaw Coals. 



Measures. 

 Cat Coal. 

 Measures 

 Stanley Scale 



Coal. 

 Measures. 

 Stanley Main 



Coal, 



? Absent north of 

 Wakefield. 



' Rock. 



Measures with Kent's Thin Rock. 

 Kent's Thin Coal. 

 Measures with Kent's Thin Rock. 

 ,. - , High Hazles, Kent's Thick, and Mapplewell 

 ^O [ (foals. 

 Measures with Barnsley Rider Coal, and Barnsley 

 "36 Barnsley, Warren House, and Gawthorpe Coals. 

 35. Measures with thin irregular Coals. .... 



34. Swallow Wood Coal, Netherton Coals, Haigh Moor Coal. 

 j" 33. Measures with Birdwell and Thornhill Rocks. 



fo'2- Joan, Mitchell, or Parson's Coal. 

 ( c . I 31- Measures with Tankersley Ironstone. 



2 §■ I 30. Heward, Flockton Thick, and Adwalton Stone Coal. 

 fH o -[ 29. Measures. 

 — O I 28. Doubtful if represented | Flockton Thin Coal, Adwalton 



V. 



25. 



Wanting north of Dodworth. 



Measures with Birstal Rock. 



300-; c-^ 19 



15- 

 14. 



630 'i 



south of Flockton. I Black Bed, Middleton High 



j Main or Forty Yards Coal. 

 Measures. 



Fenton's Coal and 

 Black Mine Iron- 

 stone. 

 Measures with Park 

 Gate Rock. 



Park Gate, Old Hards, Two Yards, Brown Metal, and Firthfield 

 Coals. 

 ^23. Measures. ^ 



Walker's or Thorncliffe Thin, Green Lane, Middleton Little, 



and Hard Band Coals. 

 Measures. 



Swilley, New Hards, and Middleton Main Coals. 

 Measures. 

 Silkstone Four-foot, Wheatley Lime, Three Quarters, and 



Middleton Eleven Yards Coals. 

 Measures with Silkstone Rock. I Measures with Falhouse 



Measures with Claywood Ironstone. | Rock. 

 Silkstone, Blocking, and Barcelona Coals. 

 Measures ......... 



Whinmoor Group of Coals. 

 Measures with irregular Sand- 



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stone. 

 Penistone Plays. 

 Grenoside Sandstone Coal. 

 Grenoside Sandstone. 



Measures. 



Underclay and Thin Coal. 



Beeston Coals. 

 Measures with 

 Roclc. 



Oaketishaiu '\ 



Crow Coal. 



Measures with Low Moor 



Ironstone. 

 Black Bed Coal. 

 Measures with Thick Stone. 

 Better Bed Coal. 



