THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SOUTH-EAST PENNINE COALFIELD

Abstract

It is the duty and privilege of a president at the annual meeting of the Yorkshire Geological Society to review the stock of knowledge within some part of the Society’s activities, with which by long association or research he has a special or a personal interest. For this purpose I have chosen to consider the framework of the coalfield in which we work, and to-day I shall follow the growth of the ideas about its structure, as they have developed in the century following the publication of the maps of William Smith. I cannot, within the limits of an address, document all the evidence, but will say at once that my information is mainly derived from the under-mentioned authorities. John Farey. General View of Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire, 1811. William Smith. Geological Map of England and Wales, 1815; Yorkshire, 1821. W. D. Conybeare and William Phillips. Outlines of Geology of England and Wales, 1822. John Phillips. Geology of Yorkshire, Part II. The Mountain Limestone, 1836. Edward Hull. Lines of Elevation, Q.J.G.S. xxiv, 1868. Hull, Green, Clifton Ward, Ramsay and Phillips. Minutes of Evidence: Reports of Royal Coal Commission. Section D, 1871. A. H. Green. Geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield, Mem. Geol. Surv., 1878. P. F. Kendall. Special Report to Geological Committee, Second Royal Coal Commission, 1905. W. Gibson. The Concealed Coalfield of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, Mem. Geol. Surv., 1913. W. G. Fearnsides. Effects of Earth Movement in the Sheffield District. Trans. Inst. Min. Eng., 1 and li, 1916. G. …