164 MR. C. FOX- STEANG WAYS ON SECTIONS ALONG THE [May 1 898, 



crop out east and west of Deepsick Lane Bridge respectively ; the 

 latter of these is probably the Soft Coal, but without surveying the 

 neighbouring country it is impossible to identify the named seams. 

 This interesting section may be further continued by the following 

 account of the measures passed through in the tunnel, these latter 

 being nearly consecutive with those above : — 



Section op strata passed through in Duckmanton Tunnel. 



{Estimated from a drawing to scale hy Mr. JR. Elliott Cooper.) 



1. Hard rock 



2. Shale and ironstone 



3. Hard rock 



4. Shale and ironstone ....... 



5. Ironstone 



6. Shale and ironstone 



7. Measures 1^1 



8. Ironstone 1 \ Heading. 



9. Coal 3 6j 



10. Black fireclay 



11. Hard bind 



12. Clunch 



13. Bind 



14. Clunch 



15. Bind 



16. Clunch 



17. Bind 



18. Clunch 



19. Bind 



20. Clunch 



21. Bind 



22. Clunch 



23. Bind 



24. Clunch 



25. Bind 



26. Rock 



27. Bind 



28. Clunch 



29. Bind 



30. Coal-seam. Deep Hard 



Coal 



31. Black fireclay 



32. Rock-seam 



33. Shaly bind 



34. Rock 



35. Shaly bind 



Ft. in. 



9 



14 10 



1 6 



11 6 



9 



10 2 



6 



11 

 10 10 



1 3 

 6 



1 

 6 

 9 



2 



Ft. in. 







u 

 10 





6 



3 



5 



1 



4 



2 







2 



5 



1 



10 



7 



10 



1 







6 



10 



18 







6 







11 







4 







3 







1 



6 



21 







36. Coal ... 2 Op 



37. Clay ... 1 l^^!^ o q 



38. Coal.... 9j ^^^^- ^ ^ 



39. Fireclay 4 



40. Softish shaly bind 29 



41. Rock 1 6 



42. Shale 2 6 



43. Rock 1 9 



44. Bind 16 



45. Coal 1 6 



46. Fireclay 5 



47. Shale 6 4 



48. Coal 3 



49. Very hard black fireclay . 20 

 60. Rock 4 4 



51. Bind and shale 2 8 



52. Rock 3 



53. Very hard bind 16 



54. Coal-seam. Tupton Coal. 3 



55. Fireclay 3 



56. Rock 1 



57. Shale 5 



58. Cannel Coal 1 



59. Bind 17 



60. Clunch 3 



61 . Hard bind with ironstone. 98 



62. Coal 3 



63. Black fireclay, very hard. 15 



64. Coal 2 6' 



65. Hard bind 46 



66. Fireclay 3 



67. Coal-seam. Black Shale 



Coal 6 



68. Ironstone with siliceous 



pebbles. 



In this tunnel, all the measures down to the Black Shale Coal were 

 crossed ; the positions of the Deep Hard Coal, the Piper Coal, the 

 Tupton Coal, and the Black Shale Coal are very clear, but the 

 numerous beds of Ironstone Eake which occur in this series do not 

 appear to have been recognized by the men. The Black Shale Coal, 

 which is better known as the Siikstone Coal, crops out at the western 

 mouth of the tunnel, and is cut off by a fault or slip of some kind 

 which has produced the peculiar arrangement of the strata shown 



