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The Ordovician Rocks of the Chatwall District, Shropshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. T. Dean
Affiliation:
British Museum, (Natural History), London, S.W. 7.

Abstract

A detailed account is given of the stratigraphical succession of the Chatwall Flags and Sandstone of the type area in South Shropshire, and a restricted use of the name “Chatwall Sandstone” is proposed.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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