Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales The Geology of the Southern Part of the South Staffordshire Coalfield (South of the Bentley Faults)

Abstract

WHEN Jukes wrote his classic memoir on the South Staffordshire Coalfield, the Thick Coal was being actively mined. To-day it is almost completely worked out, except in the concealed fields beyond the boundary faults, and the surface geology of much of the coalfield is that of tip-heaps and slagmounds; nevertheless, the authors of the present memoir, under the scrupulous editorial guidance of Mr. T. C. Cantrill, have compiled a concise, yet detailed, account of the Productive Coal Measures, showing their variations, structures, and probable limits on the south and west. The marshalling of the scattered and often obscure data relating to these measures is very skilfully done. Numerous plates of vertical sections supplement the descriptions. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. The Geology of the Southern Part of the South Staffordshire Coalfield (South of the Bentley Faults). By Talbot H. Whitehead T. Eastwood With contributions by Dr. T. Robertson Pp. xi + 218 + 13 plates. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office; Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1927.) 6s. 6d. net.