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Further studies on the soils of North Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Gilbert Wooding Robinson  and
Charles Frederick Hill
Gilbert Wooding Robinson
Affiliation:
Adviser in Agricultural Chemistry
Charles Frederick Hill
Affiliation:
Former Research Student, University College of North Wales, Bangor.
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In a former paper, one of us has discussed the Palaeozoic soils of North Wales. In that paper, the Carboniferous soils were omitted as being rather apart from the other Palæozoic soils, which formed a convenient group for study by themselves. In the present paper, the authors discuss Carboniferous soils and the soils derived from the Northern Drift, together with the associated deposits of more recent origin.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 1919 , pp. 259 - 282
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1919

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References

page 259 note 1 “Studies on the Palaeozoic Soils of North Wales,” by Robinson, Gilbert Wooding. This Journal, 8, Part III, 06, 1917.Google Scholar

page 259 note 2 Flintshire, C. F. Hill; Anglesey, Carnarvonshire and Denbighshire, G. W. Robinson.

page 259 note 3 The rainfall map given in the previous paper contained certain inaccuracies which have now been rectified.

page 261 note 1 We have not examined any sedentary soils from the Trias. For a description of Triassic soils, see A Survey of the Soils and Agriculture of Shropshire, by Robinson, G. W.. Shrewsbury, 1913.Google Scholar

page 272 note 1 “The Glacial Deposits of West Carnarvonshire.” Jehu, T. J.. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 42, Part I, No. 2.Google Scholar

page 278 note 1 It has been suggested that this clay is a deposit carried from the north and deposited from melting icebergs. However this may be, I have noted the same deposit in Carnarvonshire and it has been found by others in Anglesey. In the former county, at the College farm, Aber near Bangor, there is a deposit of clay about 18 inches or more from the surface in all respects similar to the Vale of Clwyd type. Dr G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., has distinguished fragments of foraminifera in this clay but was not able to name them. Foraminifera have also been found in the Clwydian clay. The clay in the Bangor and Aber district is everywhere obscured by local drift. I have also noticed it in a cutting near Penmaenmawr. G. W. R.

See “Drifts of the Vale of Clwyd, etc.” Hughes, T. McKenny, Q.J.G.S., 02, 1887.Google Scholar

page 282 note 1 “Soils of North Wales.” Robinson, G. W.. Journ. Bd. of Agric. 06, 1915.Google Scholar