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V.—Woodwardian Museum Notes: on some Anglesey Dykes. J.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Alfred Harker
Affiliation:
St. John's College

Extract

In the Woodwardian Museum is a collection of nearly a thousand rock-specimens made by Professor Henslow to illustrate his “ Geological Description of Anglesea ” (1821, Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. i. pp. 359–452, plates xv.–xxi.). Specimens of the principal dykes were submitted to the examination of Professor Cordier, and his remarks on them are quoted in Henslow's paper. As Cordier's determinations date from a time when thin slices of rocks were unknown, and but little attention has since been given to the dykes of Anglesey, it is believed that brief notices of some of the typical rocks from localities easity identified may have an interest for British geologists. As regards the mode of occurrence of the dykes and their effects upon the adjacent strata, little can be added to the accurate descriptions of Henslow, written at a time when the igneous origin of dykes was a proposition to be proved.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1887

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References

page 413 note 1 Cf. also Profbasalt, Judd's from Mull, Q.J.G.S. vol. xlii. pl. vi. fig. 7, 1886.Google Scholar

page 413 note 2 Student‘s Elements of Geology, 3rd ed. p. 515.

page 414 note 1 Blum, ., “Pseudoraorpliosen,” p. 100, etc.Google Scholar