THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Vol. LIX. 



1. The Fossil Floea of the Cumberland Coalfield, and the Pal^o- 

 botanical Eyidence with regard to the Age of the Beds. 

 By E. A. Newell Aeber, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., Trinity College, 

 Cambridge ; University Demonstrator in Paleobotany. (Read 

 November 5th, 1902.) 



[Plates I & II.] 



Contents. 



Page 



I. Introduction 1 



II. The Fossil Flora of the Cumberland Coalfield 3 



A. The Sandstone Series . > 3 



(1) Localities and Horizons of Plant-Remains. 



(2) The Elora of the Lower Division of the Sandstone Series. 



B. The Productive Measures 10 



(1) Localities and Horizons of Plant-Remains. 



(2) The Flora of the Upper Division of the Productive 



Measures, 



III. The Palseobotanical Evidence as to the Age of the Beds in the White- 



haven-Maryport District of the Cumberland Coalfield 15 



A. The Sandstone Series 15 



(1) Upper Division. 



(2) Lower Division. 



B. The Productive Measures 19 



(1) Upper Division. 



(2) Lower Division. 



IV. Conclusions ... ,. 20 



V. Bibliography , 21 



I. Introduction. 



The most important area of the Cumberland Coalfield is situated 

 on, or near, the western coast-line, extending from the neighbour- 

 hood of Whitehaven on the south to that of Maryport on the north. 

 The geology of this district was first studied by Sedgwick, and has 

 since formed the subject of numerous memoirs, to many of which 

 reference will here be made. In this paper, however, we are only 

 Q. J. G. S. No. 233. b 



