Opis: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Vol. 5 - Woodward Horace B.

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Vol. 5: The Jurassic Rocks of Britain; The Middle and Upper Oolitic Rocks of England (Yorkshire Excepted)

This volume which, like its two predecessors, is the work of Mr. H.B. Woodward, completes the general description of the Jurassic Rocks of England and Wales. It includes an account of the strata from the Oxfordian to the Purbeckian divisions, with some remarks on the probably marine equivalents of the Purbeck group in Lincolnshire.

As in previous volumes of this Memoir, full references are given to the labours of others who have worked at the formations described in the following chapters. In early days the broad outlines of the geology of the Middle and Upper Oolites were admirably sketched by Webster, Sedgwick, Buckland, De la Beche, Lonsdale, Fitton, Mantell, and John Phillips. Among the later more detailed investigations, special prominence may be given to the elaborate work of Prof. J. F. Blake and Mr. Hudleston on the Corallian rocks; to the separate papers by Prof. Blake on the Kimeridge Clay and Portland Beds; and to the work of Thomas Roberts on the Corallian clays. These observers have done much to elucidate the minute stratigraphy and palajontology of the formations to which they have so sedulously devoted their attention.

Our information regarding the Oxfordian and Purbeckian groups has not hitherto been summarised, and many details on this subject are now for the first time published. I may specially refer to the account of the Kellaways strata at Kellaways, and to the lists of fossils from that and other localities in the southwest of England.

The Geological Survey has not hitherto published any memoir descriptive of the higher Oolitic strata in Dorset, although the admirable Maps and Sections by H. W. Bristow, and the detailed sections of the Purbeck Beds by that author and Edward Forbes, have depicted some of the main features of the geology of that region.

In the preparation of this volume full advantage has been taken of previous Memoirs of the Survey descriptive of the strata in the Midland area, especially those by Prof. Hull, Prof. Green, Prof. Judd, Mr. Jukes-Browne, and Mr. Strahan.

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Nazwa: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Vol. 5 The Jurassic Rocks of Britain; The Middle and Upper Oolitic Rocks of England (Yorkshire Excepted) (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Woodward Horace B.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331524847
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 514
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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