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The age of the Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous) rocks proved beneath the Kent Coalfield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. Mitchell
M. Mitchell
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Institute of Geological Sciences, Ring Road Halton, Leeds LS15 8TQ
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Summary

The history of research into the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Kent since Dines' 1933 account of the stratigraphy of the coalfield is outlined. Details of the boreholes that have proved Lower Carboniferous are listed, including notes of the significant fossils that have been identified. The age of the Lower Carboniferous rocks is discussed. Two boreholes yielded faunas of Tournaisian age and i4 proved rocks of Holkerian age. No younger Dinantian strata are known from Kent.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 118 , Issue 6 , November 1981 , pp. 703 - 711
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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