Abstract

The Author attempts to throw light on the question of the easterly extension of the Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire coalfield beneath the newer rocks. He notices the general trend of the strata, the sizes of other British coalfields, the question of the origin of mountains, stratigraphical considerations, and the faults of the North of England. His object is rather to suggest what he believes to be novel ways of treating the subject than of reaching conclusions or locating limits. The Author calls attention to the previously established fact that an anticlinal exists in the Secondary rocks near the southern end of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The existence of this anticlinal has been demonstrated by Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlix. 1893, p. 467). Following the reasoning of M. Marcel Bertrand, he infers that an anticlinal in the Carboniferous rocks probably underlies this, and that the easterly termination of productive Coal Measures under Lincolnshire may be formed by this anticlinal.

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