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ME. E. A. NEWELE AEBEE OJf 



[Feb. 1909, 



Waldershare Series. A condensed and diagrammatic section of the 

 Carboniferous core is as follows : — 



Depth in feet 

 (from surface). 

 1394 



Diagrammatic Section of the Waldershare Series. 



Top of Coal-Measures, 



1818 



1881 



1908 



1956 



2377 



Sandstones, shales, 



and underclays. 



424 feet. 



Coal. 



Shales and fireclays 

 63 feet. 



Shales and fireclays. 

 27 feet. 



Coal. 



Shales and fh - eclays. 

 48 feet. 



Coal. 



Sandstones and shales. 

 421 feet. 



Coal. 



Welcome Seam 

 (1 ft. 8 ins.). 



Alexandra Seam 

 (3 ft. 4 ins.). 



King Edward Sea 

 (4 ft. 6 ins.). 



Watkin Seam 

 (1 ft. 4 ins.). 



Eockefeller Seam 

 (5 ft. 2 ins.). 



Continued to 

 2654 feet. 



The Waldershare Series is essentially a shale-series : sandstone- 

 beds being unimportant, except at the top and near the bottom. 



Later in 1905, the same Company put down a boring near 

 Fredville Park, close to the main line of the Chatham & Dover 

 Railway from Dover to Canterbury, and about 2 miles north of 

 Shepherds' Well Station. This boring is distant about 3 miles 

 north-west of the Waldershare boring. The Coal-Heasures were 

 struck at a depth of 1363 feet below the surface. Three seams of 

 coal were proved. A condensed and diagrammatic section of this 

 boring is as follows : — 



