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LANCASTER AND WRIGHT SHIREOAK COLLIERY. 



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Table of Strata continued. 



Description of Strata. 



Thickness. 



Depth. 



Rock and shale 



yds. 



23 

 



16 

 

 7 

 



15 



1 



18 

 1 

 1 

 4 



15 

 

 8 

 

 

 



13 

 

 3 

 



18 

 1 

 



10 

 



19 

 



42 

 

 5 

 1 

 

 2 



ft. 

 1 





 2 

 1 

 1 

 

 



1 

 1 







1 





 

 2 







1 

 1 

 1 



2 

 2 

 2 





 2 









 2 

 

 2 

 1 

 2 





 

 

 



1 



in. 



10 

 7 

 

 2 

 6 

 5 

 



4 

 

 2 

 6 

 5 

 5 

 8 

 1 

 6 

 4 

 

 8 

 1 

 9 

 6 

 3 

 1 

 7 

 2 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 1 

 7 

 7 

 9 

 3 

 6 



yds. 

 300 

 301 

 317 

 318 

 324 

 324 

 339 



340 



358 

 359 

 361 

 365 

 380 

 381 

 389 

 389 

 390 

 390 

 404 

 404 

 408 

 408 

 427 

 428 

 428 

 439 

 439 

 459 

 459 

 502 

 502 

 507 

 509 

 .-.on 

 511 



626 

 526 

 637 



f>:57 

 646 

 646 

 547 



ft, in. 

 2 5 

 

 2 



2 



1 8 



2 1 

 2 1 



5 



1 6 

 1 8 

 2 



7 



1 

 8 

 9 



2 3 



7 



1 7 



3 



2 4 

 2 1 

 2 7 



1 10 



1 11 



2 6 

 1 8 

 1 10 



1 1 



2 5 



1 6 



2 1 

 2 8 

 5 

 8 

 2 2 



(i 



1 1 

 1 1 



1 8 

 1 



2 6 

 B 



Coal 



Shale and ironstone 



Inferior coal 



Shale 



Coal 



Rock and shale 



Shlreoak, Melton, Clown, or 

 Wathwood coal 



Shale 



Inferior coal 



Warren earth 



Strong rock 



Measures ( with thin heds of coal) . . 

 Furnace-coal 



Measures 



Coal 



Fire-clay 



Coal 



Shale and rock 



Coal 



Shale and rock 



Coal 



Shale and rock 



Hazles coal 



Dirt in coal 



Rock and shale 



Shell-bed 



Shale 



Coal 



Shale and rock 



Coal 



Shale 



11 UtlJ COAL 



Dark warren earth 



Blue shale 





Proved by Bo 

 Rock and shale 



ring. 



14 







11 

 

 s 

 

 



1 

 

 

 



1 



2 



1 



4 

 7 

 

 7 

 5 

 5 

 2 





i;iu.' shale and ironston. '-bands .... 











The Permian beds are, we think, better developed here than at 

 any colliery where they have been sunk through, though their total 

 thickness is only 207 feet. The upper beds, as will be Been from 



the vertical section (|>- I !•'')• e»>nsist of thin ami alternate layers ••! 



