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III.—On the Physical History of the English Lake District. With Notes on the Possible Subdivisions of the Skiddaw Slates1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. Clifton Ward
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As the Carboniferous rocks form a framework around the Silurian mountain country, so do the Permian rocks for considerable distances lie as an outer flat and bevelled edge to the slightly raised Carboniferous frame, the edge indeed overlapping the frame itself along the west coast-line between St. Bee's Head and the Duddon Estuary.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 1879 , pp. 110 - 125
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1879

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page 112 note 1 For maps showing probable form of land at different stages of submergence, see papers by the author on “Lake District Glaciation,” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxix. p. 422, and vol. xxxi. p. 152.

page 114 note 1 See papers by the author.

page 115 note 1 I may here mention that this museum has been started with the hope of illustrating, as completely as possible, the Natural History of the district. Any help from naturalists visiting the country would be most gladly received, as the working resources are somewhat limited.

page 115 note 2 I have placed in the Keswick Museum of Local Natural History a map of the District on the 1-inch scale, upon which are marked in different colours and patterns (1) all pre-historic remains, (2) Roman remains, (3) camps, etc., of uncertain age; and a detailed account of these will be found in a paper entitled “Notes on Archaeological Remains in the Lake District,” published in the Transactions of flie Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, J878, p. 241.

page 115 note 3 Geology of the Northern Parts of the English Lake District, by the Author.