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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The term “Midford Sands” suggested by Professor Phillips for the Sands which occur between the Inferior Oolite and the Upper Lias Clay, gives us a very happy name, and one that has been long wanted for these beds; for hitherto although they have been called by many names, not one has been generally adopted. They were first discovered and studied, so Professor Phillips tells us, by William Smith, in the picturesque cliff which overhung his house at Tucking Mill, near Midford—a little hamlet about three miles south of Bath, and situated in one of those delightful valleys formed by the river Avon and its tributaries.
page 513 note 1 Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames, p. 109.
page 513 note 2 Quart. Jonrn. Geol. Soc, vol. xii., p. 292.
page 513 note 3 On the Middle and Upper Lias of the South-west of England. Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. xiii., 1865–6.
page 514 note 1 The Cotteswold Hills. Hand-Book introductory to their Geology and Palæontology, pp. 16–33. (London, 1857. 8vo.)
page 514 note 2 Op. cit., p. 118.
page 515 note 1 Op. cit., p. 17.
page 515 note 2 Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. ii., p. 249.
page 515 note 3 Mr. Bristow has prepared an interesting Table, showing the thicknesses of the Secondary strata in the Southern counties of England, which is published in the Report of the Coal Commission.