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A Palaeontological Link between the Midgeholme Outlier, Cumberland, and the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. Hopkins  and
G. M. Bennison
W. Hopkins
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University Science Laboratories, Durham.
G. M. Bennison
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Marischal College, Aberdeen.
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Abstract

A prominent shell bed from the Middle Coal Measures of the Midgeholme Coalfield, Cumberland, is here recorded for the first time. The fauna, consisting of non-marine lamellibranchs is listed and briefly described. It establishes that the horizon of the Cannel Seam at which the shell bed occurs is within the C. pseudorobusta Sub-zone of the upper part of the C. communis Zone.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 94 , Issue 3 , June 1957 , pp. 215 - 220
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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