BEVAN EBBW VALE COAL-FIELD. 
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The following is the section of the strata in the valley of the Ebbw — 
the whole comprising a thickness of about 470 yards : — 
Trod-y-rhiw coal** . . 
Underclay 
Sandstone and shale, with thin 
seams of coal and underclay 
Coal 
Carbonaceous shale . . 
Sandstone 
Carbonaceous shale . . 
Sandstone 
Carbonaceous shale . . 
Coal 
Underclay 
Coal 
Shale, containing seams of coal 
Argillaceous shale, with " Up- 
per Pins " . . 
Old Man's coal 
Underclay 
Black Band ... 
Sandstone and shale . . 
Coal 
Sandstone and shale . . 
Argil, shale, with ironstone. . 
Shale, with " Soap veins " 
(ironstone).. 
Carb. shale, with black band 
Coal 
Sandstone 
Shale, containing " Black 
Pins " (ironstone) . . 
Coal 
Argillaceous shale . . 
Fireclay 
Shale and sandstone . . 
Carb. sh., with ironst. nodules 
■"'Elled coal 
Coal, with shale partin;,'S 
Big Vein coal, with partings 
Shale with ironstone nodules 
"*Three-quarter coal . . 
Argillaceous shale . . 
Coal, with partings . . 
1 6 
1 2 
0 10 
2 4 
2 0 
1 6 
0 4 
ft. in 
Argillaceous shale, with band 
of ironstone 
Coal 0 6 
Underclay 
Coal 0 8J 
Shale and underclay 
Argil, shale, with nodules of 
ironstone ... 
Coal 0 7 
Coal 0 11 
Arenaceous shale 
Bydyllog coal ... 3 9 
Underclay, with ironstone ... 
Argillaceous shale ... 
'Upper Darren coal ... ... 0 10 
Underclay 
Sandstone 
Argil, shale, with ironstone... 
Engine Coal, with partings .. 5 9 
Carb. shale, with ironstone . . 
Gloin goch bach coal... ... 1 6 
Underclay, with ironstone ... 
Argil, shale, with ironstone... 
Coal 1 2 
Underclay 
Yard Coal 3 2 
*Carb. shale, with black band 
Old Coal 5 6 
Sandstone 
Argil, shale, with spotted iron- 
stone 
Coal 0 5 
Underclay 
Argil, shale, in red vein (irou- 
stone) 
*Ditto with spotted, and black 
pins (Ironstone) ... 
*Big veined ironstone 
Argillaceous shale 
* Bottom vein ironstone 
Bottom vein coal ... ... 2 0 
Underclay 
The veins marked with a star are those in which any fossil remains 
have been found. In the first, or Black Pins, there are two or three 
species of unio or anthracosia. 
The Elled is very profitable for the collector of fossils, and I annex a 
list of the ferns I have found there. They are in extremely good 
preservation, and well marked; and are met with in the rubbish just 
* By an error in my last paper I stated that this seam of coal belonged to the 
Pennant rock ; but it is at the base of it. 
