klDSTON : YORKSHIRE CARBONIFEROUS i'LORA. 



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Name of Strata. 



Thickness of Strata. 



Depth from Surface* 







I'eet 



Inches 







Surface 











Earth and clay 



20 



6 



t 





Strong stone bind 

 Stone and cank 



13 



6 



6 



O 







Strono; stone bind 



23 



4 







Shale 



2 











Swallow Wood or , , 



Haigh Moor Coal (, 



^ J coal 



2 



3 



5 

 5 



y22 yards — 





Fire clay 



2 



3 





L 



Spavin (underclay 



Coal 



6 



8 



10 





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Spavin 

 ^ f Strong stone bind") 

 \Rock / 

 Cannel Coal 



4 



14 



ICO 



I 





 



3 

 5 





k 



Blue bind 



13 



10 





£ 



Coal 



I 



4 







Spavin 



2 



St 





E 



s 



List of Fossil Plai 



its from Railway Cutting, 



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Brightside, near Sheffield 



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Sphenopteris obiusiloba Brongt. 

 Sphenopteris dilatata L. & H. 

 Sphefiopteris irifoliolaia Artis sp. 

 Sphenopteris spiniforniis Kidston. 

 Sphenopteris fiircata Brongt. 

 Renatiliia Footncri Marrat sp. 

 Crossotheca Schatzlarensis Stur sp. 

 Peeopteris Miitoni Artis s[). 

 Dactylotheca phmiosa Artis sp. 

 Mariopteris muricata Schl sp. 

 Lonchopteris Eschiveileriana .\ndra3. 

 Neuropteris tenuifolia Schl. sp. 

 Neuropteris obliqua Brongt. sp. 

 Calamitina varians Schl. sp. 

 Calamitina u?idulata Sternb. sp. 

 Catamites {Eucalamites) ramosus Artis sp. 

 Calamites {Siylocalaniites) Cisiii Brongt. 

 Calamocladus equisetiforniis Schl. sp. 

 Calamodadus charcBformis Sternb. sp. 



t Only the upper portion of the section is given here. 



