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I.—On the Physical History of the English Lake District. With Notes on the Possible Subdivisions of the Skiddaw Slates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. Clifton Ward
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Introduction.—In previous papers upon the Geology of the English Lake District, which I have had the honour of laying before the Geological Society, special considerations of theoretic significance have been dwelt upon, and in the official memoir upon the Geology of the northern part of the English Lake District, detailed facts have been brought forward and a sketch given (in chap. xii.) of the original relation of the formations to each other, and their physical history. I yet venture to think, however, that there is need of a general summary of the facts relating to Physical Hiatory which may reach a wider circle of readers than do the offical memoirs, and which may stimulate further inquiries into this deeply-interesting subject. The following pages may therefore be regarded as a sequel to my former papers on the district, and in some measure as a last chapter to the story told thus far.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , February 1879 , pp. 49 - 61
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1879

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page 49 note 1 For a list of the author's papers on the district see Appendix at the close of this memoir.

page 50 note 1 In conformity with Survey nomenclature used in previous work, I here call the series above the Coniston Limestone, Upper Silurian, and when speaking generally of the physical relations of one group to another, I use the term to include all under the head of (c).

page 58 note 1 Some such apparent ice-scratched stones from Mell Fell have been deposited in the Jermyn Street Museum.

page 58 note 2 Trans. Geol. Soc, second series, vol. iv. p. 47.

page 59 note 1 Mell Fell is a mountain of rounded form at the west end of the long patch of Conglomerate marked on the Sketch-Map, Plate II.

page 59 note 2 Survey Memoir, p. 76.

page 59 note 3 Prof. Phillips long ago suggested that the Old Red—so-called—ayhave been accumulated in old valleys.—Geology of Yorkshire, vol. ii. p 14. 4

page 59 note 4 The east and west line of railway on the Map may be taken as the axis of this now much-deepened channel.