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The Use of Gryphaea in the Correlation of the Lower Lias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. E. Trueman
A. E. Trueman
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University College of Swansea.
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In the course of recent investigations in the littoral Lias of South Wales and parts of Somerset the writer has frequently found that almost the only fossils in some of these deposits are species of Ostræa and Gryphæa, which occur in regular sequence and are of considerable value in correlation. On consulting the literature describing these genera it became apparent that the specific names have been frequently misapplied. From correspondence with other students of Liassic rocks it also appeared that there is some difference of opinion concerning the precise horizons at which such species are to be found.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 59 , Issue 6 , June 1922 , pp. 256 - 268
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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