Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
In a paper published in 1924 the writer described a breccia passed through in a boring at Nechells, Birmingham, which there about 350 feet thick, overlain unconformably by the Keuper. Sandstone, and lying unconformably on the Calcareous Conglomerate Group ( = the Corley Beds), which is included in the Carboniferous by the Geological Survey.
page 313 note 1 “The Breccia-bed underlying Nechells,” Q.J.G.S., vol. lxxx, pt. iii.Google Scholar
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page 314 note 1 Birmingham Memoir, p. 137.
page 315 note 1 Nechells paper, p. 352.
page 315 note 2 Birmingham Mem., p. 135.
page 318 note 1 Mem. of Birmingham District, p. 62, and 1-inch map of Birmingham, Sheet 168.
page 318 note 2 “The Heavy Minerals of the Keele, Enville, ‘Permian,’ and Lower Triassic Rocks of the Midlands and the Correlation of these Strata,” Fleet, W. F., Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxxviii, pt. i, 1927.Google Scholar
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page 320 note 2 Nechells paper, p. 356.
page 322 note 1 These are the two limestones seen by MrKing, W. to outcrop respectively about 100 yards west and east of Halford Bridge in the G.W.R. cutting. “The Sandwell–Handsworth Railway Section,” Proc. Birm. Nat. Hist. and Phil. Soc., vol. xv, 1923, pp. 41–6.Google Scholar
page 322 note 2 Ibid., p. 13.