ME. E. W. BINNEY ON SOME LO WEE-COAL-SEAM EOSSIL PLANTS. 
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by me in the lower divisions of the Lancashire and Yorkshire coal-measures imbedded 
in calcareous nodules occurring in seams of coal. 
Specimen No. 1, .from the first-named district, is from the same locality as the Trigo- 
nocarjjon, described by Dr. J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., and myself, in a memoir “ On the 
Structure of certain Limestone Nodules enclosed in seams of Bituminous Coal, with a 
Description of some Trigonocarpons contained therein” *, and the other seven specimens 
are from the same seam of coal in the lowercoal-measures as that in which the specimens 
described in a paper entitled “On some Fossil Plants, showing Structure, from the Lower 
Coal-measures of Lancashire ”f, were met with, but from a different locality. 
The position of the seams of coal in which the fossil-woods were found in the carbo- 
niferous series will be shown by the following sections of the lower coal-measures. 
In Lancashire. 
yds. 
ft. 
in. 
In Yorkshire. 
yds. 
ft. 
in. 
1 
1 
0 
Beeston or Silkstone seam 
. . 2 
0 
0 
69 
0 
0 
Strata 
0 
0 
0 
0 
3 
Eoyds or Black seam 
. 0 
2 
10 
Strata 
57 
0 
0 
Strata 
. . 38 
0 
0 
Seam 
0 
0 
6 
Better Bed seam 
. . 0 
1 
4 
Strata 
45 
0 
0 
Strata 
. . 51 
0 
0 
Upper flagstone (Upholland) 
50 
0 
0 
Upper Flagstone (Elland) 
. . 40 
0 
0 
Strata 
20 
0 
0 
Strata 
. . 40 
0 
0 
Seam (90 yards) 
0 
0 
5 
Seam (90 yards) 
. . 0 
0 
6 
Strata 
20 
0 
0 
Strata 
.. 56 
0 
0 
Seam (40 yards) 
0 
1 
6 
Seam (40 yards) 
. . 0 
1 
0 
Strata 
64 
0 
0 
Strata 
.. 39 
0 
0 
«*Upper Foot seam (Dog Hill) 
0 
1 
2 
Strata 
15 
0 
0 
^Gannister seam 
1 
0 
0 
* -^Halifax Hard seam 
. . 0 
2 
3 
Strata 
13 
0 
0 
Strata 
.. 14 
0 
0 
Lower Foot seam (Qnarlton) 
0 
2 
0 
Middle seam 
. . 0 
0 
11 
Strata 
17 
0 
0 
Strata 
.. 24 
0 
0 
Bassy seam (New Mills) 
0 
2 
6 
Soft seam 
.. 0 
1 
6 
Strata 
40 
0 
0 
Strata 
.. 56 
0 
0 
Seam 
0 
0 
10 
Strata 
10 
0 
0 
Sand or Featheredge seam 
0 
2 
0 
Sand seam . , 
. 0 
o 
4 
Eough Eock of Lancashire (Upper Millstone 
of Geological Survey) 
20 
0 
0 
Upper Millstone of Phillips (Halifax) . . 
. . 36 
0 
0 
Strata (Eochdale or Lower Flags) 
120 
0 
0 
Strata (Lower Flagstone) 
72 
0 
0 
*Seam 
0 
0 
6 
Little seam 
. . 0 
0 
3 
Strata 
2 
0 
0 
Seam 
0 
0 
10 
Strata 
14 
0 
0 
Seam 
0 
1 
3 
Upper Millstone of Lancashire. 
In the Lancashire coal-field all the seams of coal, from the forty yards downwards, have 
at places afforded the Amculojpecten and other marine shells in their roofs of black shale, 
and these latter strata generally contain calcareous nodules. The nodules in the seams 
of coal commonly known by the name of Bullions have chiefly been found in the beds 
marked #, ##, and ### in Lancashire, whilst in Yorkshire they have as yet been only 
observed in the Halifax Hard seam marked 
* Philosophical Transactions, 1855, p. 149. 
t Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London for May 1862, p. 106. 
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