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II.—The Uppermost Silurian and Old Red Sandstone of South Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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2. The Downton Castle or Yellow Sandstones (see Figs. 2 and 3).— These occur at Lye and Turners Hill, but the best sections are at Saltwells. There the lowest beds are 10 feet of brown yellow and blue soft sandy mudstones (see Fig. 2, Ea), seen resting on the Ludlow Bone-bed, north of the Tram Bridge. Like the same zone at Ludlow, they are practically unfossiliferous.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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page 485 note 1 The Silurian Brachiopoda, pp. 35, 36.Google Scholar

page 488 note 1 Silurian System, 1839, p. 478.Google Scholar The lower part of the Carboniferous beds set out in this section crop out in Black Brook.

page 489 note 1 South Staffs Coalfields, 2nd ed., p. 80.Google Scholar

page 489 note 2 Q.J.G.S., vol. lxii, p. 195, 1896.Google Scholar

page 489 note 3 Jukes-Browne's, Historical Geology, 1st ed., p. 121.Google Scholar