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The magnesian, or yellow limestone, which, may be very distinctly traced from the neighbourhood of Nottingham, northward to the sea-side, at the mouth of the Tyne, is, in some parts of its course marked with the characters of poverty and rough herbage, unusual to limestone.
The magnesian limestone, like that of Mendip, seems to lie in, and belong to, the great stratum of red earth which forms the eastern boundary of coal. It is, in several parts of the north, perforated for that mineral. [48]
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Bibliography
Smith, William. A Memoir to the Map and Delineation of Strata of England and Wales. London: John Cary, 1815.
Created 11 September 2018