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Very hard grey stone, with blue flinty slate, in almost vertical courses, a blackish soft stone, which resembles some of the accompaniments of coal, with beds of imperfect limestone, occupy the space between the red and killas, and may be expected to produce a soil as various as the substrata; and, from the same cause, many parts of the surface also rise into the most singular and romantic hills. [50]
Related material
- A County-by-County Geological Description of England’s Counties
- Smith’s Explanation of His Map of Geological Strata in England and Wales
- The History of the Idea of Geological Strata before William Smith’s Formulation and Map
Bibliography
Smith, William. A Memoir to the Map and Delineation of Strata of England and Wales. London: John Cary, 1815.
Created 11 September 2018