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Tonstein Bands in the Coalfields of the East Midlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. A. Eden
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Office, Edinburgh.
R. W. Elliot
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Office, Edinburgh.
R. E. Elliott
Affiliation:
East Midlands Division, Nottingham.
B. R. Young
Affiliation:
Geological Survey and Museum, Exhibition Road, London, S.W.7.

Abstract

Kaolinite-mudstone bands, widely recoginzed in the Carboniferous of Western Europe, where they are known as tonsteins, are also represented in Britain. On the basis of the probable correlation eight such bands have so far been found in the Coal Measures of the East Midlands. Laterally two of these bands are thought to pass into rocks intermediate in type between tonstein and more normal Coal Measures mudstones.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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