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On the Age and Origin of the Metallic Veins of the Upper Harz*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. M. Cadell*
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Scotland

Extract

The Harz Mountains rise from the great plain of secondary and tertiary formations in the western part of Prussia, about 130 miles inland from the seaboard at the mouth of the Elbe. Like the Thüringer Wald and other adjoining ranges, the Harz trends in an approximately east-south-east and west-north-west direction, and resembles on the map an elongated ellipse with a northern flattened side some 50 miles in length. It has been compared to a single mountain with large shoulders, culminating in the celebrated Brocken, 8,746 ft. in height. A line drawn through the Brocken from north to south roughly divides the region into two parts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1884

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Footnotes

*

An extendéd description of the geology of the Harz Mountains, with illustrations, map and sections, and with a list of the most important Gezman papers on the subject, is given by the author in the Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., Vol. VIII., 1883-4, PP. 207-266.

References

page 93 note * " Die Lehre yon den Lagerstäten der Erze." Leipzig, Veit und Co. 1879.

page 93 note † See description of the Tyndrum mines, by J. S. Grant Wilson, and H. M. Cadell, in Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., 1883-4, p. 195.