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VIII.—Burning Cliffs of the Banks of the Mackenzie River, etc
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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As bearing upon the phenomenon of the spontaneous combustion of bituminous beds of coaly or carbonaceous matter of any geological age (charged with pyrites) in sitû, the account given by Sir John Richardson, C.B., F.R.S., in his “Arctic Searching Expedition; a Journal of a Boat-voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea,” 1851, vol. i, may not be without interest in this connection.
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page 562 note 1 See Stephens, J., “An account of an uncommon Phenomenon in Dorsetshire”: Phil. Trans., vol. lii, p. 119.Google Scholar
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page 563 note 1 These porcellanous shales, with plant impressions of Tertiary Dicotyledonous leaves, etc., collected by Sir John Richardson on the cliff banks of the Mackenzie River from above the burning coal-seams, are now preserved in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), Cromwell Road. Many of the species agree with those from the plant-beds of Atanekurdluk, Greenland.