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On the Occurrence of Picritic Serpentine at Ebbor, near Wells, Somerset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Sidney H. Reynolds
Sidney H. Reynolds
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Professor of Geology in the University of Bristol.
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IN October, 1904, Mr. H. E. Balch, of Wells, forwarded some pieces of “trap” from Ebbor to the late Mr. H. B. Woodward, who handed them to Dr. J. S. Flett for examination. At a slightly later date pieces were given to me by Dr. T. F. Sibly, who was then at work in the Mendips.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 57 , Issue 5 , May 1920 , pp. 224 - 226
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1920

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page 225 note 1 Mr. Balch, however, writes (06 14, 1914): “I am not at all convinced that the ice transport theory can hold… 1 am strongly inclined to suspect an intrusion, small and so far not detected.”Google Scholar

page 225 note 2 This is the explanation suggested in a paper by the author read before the British Association at York in 1906 (Trans. of Section C, p. 581). There is also a brief account of the rock in the author's Geological Excursion Handbook for the Bristol District, 1912, p. 119. Mr. Balch shows the area in which the picritic serpentine was found in his Wookey Hole, pl. vi.Google Scholar

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