Section of the Strata from Brandon Wells to Westgate in Weardale.
Fs. | Ft. | In. | Fs. | Ft. | In. | ||
Great Limestone (E) | 11 | ─ | ─ | Brought up | 44 | ─ | 1 |
Tuft or water sill | 1 | 3 | ─ | Three yard Limestone (G) | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Plate | 2 | ─ | ─ | Plate | ─ | 3 | ─ |
High quarry hazle | 1 | 3 | ─ | Hazle | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Plate | ─ | 3 | ─ | Plate | ─ | 3 | ─ |
Low quarry hazle | 2 | ─ | ─ | Limestone (H) | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Plate | 9 | ─ | ─ | Plate | ─ | 2 | ─ |
Four fathoms Limestone (F) | 4 | ─ | ─ | Hugh slaty hazle | 1 | 5 | ─ |
Plate | ─ | 3 | ─ | Plate | 1 | ─ | ─ |
Hazle | 6 | 1 | 3 | Low grey beds Slaty hazle | 1 | 3 | ─ |
Plate | 5 | 4 | 10 | ||||
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Carried up | 44 | ─ | 1 | Fathoms | 62 | 1 | ─ |
Section of the Lead-mine Strata on Aldstone Moor, Cumberland.
Fs. | Y. | Ft. | In. | Fs. | Y. | Ft. | In. | ||
Grindstone sill | 4 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Brought up | 67 | 1 | ─ | ─ |
Plate | 6 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Plate | 3 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Hazle | 1 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Little Limestone (D) | 1 | 1 | 1 | ─ |
Plate | 2 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Little hazle | ─ | 1 | 2 | ─ |
Limestone (1) Crow Coal occasionally | 1 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Plate Coal occasionally | 2 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Hazle or upper Coal sill | 1 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Hugh Coal sill (Hard grey sandstone with specks of mica) | 1 | 1 | 1 | ─ |
Plate | 8 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Plate Coal occasionally | 1 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Hazle | 1 | 1 | 1 | ─ | Low Coal sill | 2 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Plate | 2 | 1 | ─ | ─ | Plate | 3 | ─ | 2 | ─ |
Hazle | 2 | ─ | 2 | ─ | Tumblers and Great Limestone (E) | 10 | 1 | 1 | ─ |
Plate | 1 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Tuft or Water sill | 1 | ─ | 2 | ─ |
Upper Slate sill | 4 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Plate | 2 | 1 | ─ | ─ |
Plate | 1 | 1 | ─ | ─ | Limestone post | ─ | 1 | 1 | ─ |
Lower Slate sill | 4 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Quarry hazle | 4 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Plate | 5 | ─ | 2 | ─ | Plate | 5 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Whetstone sill (Fine grained Micaceous sandstone) | 1 | 1 | ─ | ─ | Indurated bluish clay with laminæ of hard stone and Iron pyrites | 5 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Plate (Ferruginous sandstone) | 2 | ─ | ─ | ─ | Great girdles bed | 1 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Iron stone with Coal | 1 | ─ | 1 | ─ | Four fathoms Limestone (F) | 4 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Freestone with Iron pyrites | 5 | 1 | ─ | ─ | Nattras gill quarry hazle. Coarse grained sandstone | 3 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Plate | 6 | ─ | 1 | ─ | Plate | 6 | ─ | ─ | ─ |
Girdles beds | ─ | 1 | 2 | ─ | |||||
Plate | 3 | 1 | ─ | ─ | |||||
Pattison's sill or hazle (C) Very hard grey sandstone with specks of mica | 1 | 1 | ─ | ─ | |||||
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Carried up | 67 | 1 | ─ | ─ | Carried up | 121 | ─ | ─ | 1 |