438 cash: fossil fructifications of Yorkshire coal measures. 
s. 
Feet. 
N. 
Feet. 
P 
o 
o 
CQ 
M 
<s 
f jT-^e Ganister or Hard Bed Coal. 
! Measures . 
150 ^^^y Middle. Bed Coal. ^ 3q 
j Measures with middle rock. j 
[ Coking or Soft Bed Coal. J 
( Crawshaw Sandstone, and Soft Bed Flags, ] 
120 '/ or equivalent measures. > 50 
( Thin Coal and Underclay. ) 
Rough Rock. 
My friend, Mr. James W. Davis, F.L.S., of Chevinedge, Halifax, 
thus tabulates the series of lower coal measure beds in the Halifax 
district. (See " A Monograph of the Morphology and Histology of 
Stigmaria ficoides." By Mr. W. C Williamson, LL.D-, F.RS., 
Palseontographical Society. Vol. xl , p. iv. Lond. 1886) : — 
Ft. In. Ft. In. 
Elland Flagrock— Flags ... ... 45 0 
Shales ... ... 35 0 
Flasfs ... ... 120 0 
Shale 
Eighty Yards Band Coal^ or Upper Band Coal 
Eighty yards Band Rock 
Black Shales 
Hard Bed Band Coal (Fortij- eight yards Coal) 
Shales with Ironstone 
Thirty-six yards Band Coal 
Fire Clay or Gaillard 
Shale with thin Sandstones 
Shale containing concretions of Carbonate of Lime 
with covering of Iron Pyrites. Full of Goniatites 
Nantili, Orthocerata, Nuculie, Aviculopectens. 
Laminated Shale with Aviculopecten 
Hard Bed or Ganister Coal, containing concre- "] 
tions of Carbonate of Lime and Iron (coated j 
and sometimes quite charged with iron-pyrites), V 
containing vegetable remains most admirably j 
preserved ... ... .,. J 
200 
80 
0 
15 
80 
1 
35 
1 
1 
95 
5 0 
0 4 
2 2 
