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The Quartzose Conglomerate at Caldon Low, Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. Wilfrid Jackson  and
J. Kaye Charlesworth
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IN the Geological Magazine for February, 1919 (pp. 59–64), one of the present writers, in collaboration with W. E. Alkins, described an exposure of a quartzose conglomerate on the north-west flank of Caldon Low. The conclusions arrived at in that paper were adversely criticized by F. Barke, Wheelton Hind, and A. Scott in a later paper in the same Magazine. These writers maintain that the conglomerate was not a contemporaneous deposit, but an assemblage of materials, analogous to that seen in the Weaver Sand-pits, south of the Ribden Mine, about one and a quarter miles away, which had filled up a solution cavity in the limestone and had become consolidated by the percolation of calcareous matter.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 57 , Issue 11 , November 1920 , pp. 487 - 492
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1920

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page 487 note 1 Geol. Mag., Vol. LVII, 1920, p. 76.Google Scholar

page 487 note 2 Ibid., Vol. LVI, 1919, pp. 59–64.

page 487 note 3 Ibid., Vol. LVII, 1920, p. 81.

page 487 note 4 Trans. North Staffs Field Club, vol. xxxi, 1897, p. 144.Google Scholar

page 488 note 1 Ibid., p. 149.

page 488 note 2 Geol. Mag., Vol. IV, 1867, p. 250, Fig. 7.Google Scholar

page 488 note 3 Ibid., Vol. LVI, 1919, p. 60.

page 488 note 4 This fault is probably the continuation of the mineral vein marked on the 1 in. Geological Map, No. 72, N.E. The vein is now destroyed by quarrying operations.

page 489 note 1 Geol. Mag., Vol. LVII, 1920. p. 78.Google Scholar

page 490 note 1 Geol. Mag., Vol. LVI, 1919, pp. 61–2.Google Scholar

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page 490 note 5 Ibid., Vol. LVI, 1919, pp. 507–9; see also Sibly, Ibid., Vol. LVII, 1920. pp. 20–2.

page 490 note 6 We have seen specimens in W. F. Holroyd's collection and possess others from similar beds near Wetton, Staffs. See also Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc., vo1 xxv, 1896, pp. 124–5.Google Scholar

page 491 note 1 These beds were assigned to D3 by Sibly in 1908. See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxiv, 1908 p. 61.Google Scholar

page 491 note 2 Loc. cit., 1908, p. 48.Google Scholar

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