Mr. George Tate's Miscellanea Geologica. 285 



Shale , , , , , 



11. 



2 



III, 

 



Coal disturbed , , , , 







8 



Shale , , , , , 



2 







Sandstone , , , , , 



2 







Hard and soft Shale , , , 



7 







Limestone impure , , , , 



1 



3 



Grey Sandstone , , } > 



14 







Thills (hard beds intermediate between 







Sandstone and Shales) , , 



3 







Limestone , , , j , 



4 







Shale > , , , , 







3 



Craw Cba/(with a hard Stone of 2 or 3 inches 







in the middle) , , , 



2 







Shale , , , , , 







6 



Sandstone and Slaty Sandstones , , 



25 







Coal , , y , , 







2 



Shale and Slaty Sandstones , , 



4 







Impure Limestone , , , , 







6 



Thills and Shales , , , , 



5 







Coal with partings , , , , 







10 



Thill , , , , , 



2 







Little Limestone, the lower part 1 ft. 8 in. 







is worked for Lime ; it contains Pro- 







ductus semireticulatus , , , 



3 



2 



Blue Thills , , 



2 



6 



Main Coal, or Cancer Coal, now worked, viz. 



ft. in. 

 Coal , , , 6) 











Shale , , , 6 [ 



2 



8 



Coal , , , 18) 







Shale 







General dip, N.E. 







There is a similar section two and a half mile& northward 



from Bannamoor, at Houghterslaw, where the Main Coal is 



worked, in a wild and desolate moorland, the disturbed strata 



dipping north-eastward. The Main Coal here 



is fifteen 



fathoms below the surface. 



ft. 

 30 





Clay, Thills, a thin Limestone, and Shales , 



m. 

 



Craw Coal, yiz.f Coal, 15 in.; Stone, 24 in.; 







Coal, 9 in.; variable in thickness and 







poor in quality, and not worked here , 



4 







Shale , , , 







6 



