Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
This paper records the succession which was encountered in a boring made during 1935 at Walsall, South Staffordshire. The site of the boring is precisely indicated in Text-fig. 1.
page 244 note 1 The piece of core showing this surface is in the Geological Museum of the University of Birmingham.
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