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III.—On a New Section of the Cambrian Rocks in a cutting of the Llanberis and Carnarvon Railway, and the Banded Slates of Llanberis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

George Maw
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The importance of the question of conformity in the classification of the earliest stratified rocks induces me to give a short description of a new section of a part of the Cambrian rocks of Llanberis, exhibiting an apparent case of unconformity towards their base.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 45 , March 1868 , pp. 121 - 125
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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page 122 note 1 This gradation of the stratified beds into the porphyry is fully described in Professor Ramsay's work on the “Geology of North Wales.”—G.M.

page 124 note 1 The view suggested by Professer Phillips at the late meeting of the British Association.

page 124 note 2 “On the disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata.”

page 124 note 3 “On Origin of Slaty Cleavage,” Edinboro' New Philosophical Journal, 07, 1853.Google Scholar

page 125 note 1 “Chemical and Physical Geology.” English edition, vol. iii., p. 315.Google Scholar