British Upper Carboniferous Stratigraphy - Cleal, C. J.

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Résumé :
This volume catalogues over 100 Upper Carboniferous sites which have been designated SSSls. Their historical and scientific importance is shown and their significance to our understanding of the British Upper Carboniferous as a whole is indicated.

Sommaire:
1 Introduction and general background.- 2 International stage stratotypes.- Gill Beck.- Blake Brook.- River Darwen.- Park Clough.- Orchard Farm.- Little Don.- Duckmanton Railway Cutting.- Doe Lea.- 3 Culm Trough.- Crackington Coast.- Bonhay Road Cutting.- Bickleigh Wood Quarry.- Clovelly Coast.- Abbotsham Coast.- Bude Coast.- Shipload Bay.- 4 South Wales.- Tenby-Saundersfoot Coast.- Marros Sands.- Amroth Coast.- Nolton Haven.- Barland Common.- Vale of Neath.- Smarts Quarry.- Lower House Stream Section.- Cwm Gwrelych-Nant Llyn Fach.- Nant Llech.- Cwm Twrch.- Earlswood Road Cutting and Ferryboat Inn Quarry.- Blaenrhondda Road Cutting.- Trehir Quarry.- Penllergaer Railway Cutting.- Llammarch Dingle.- Brynmawr Road Cutting.- Wern Ddu.- Coed-y-Darren.- 5 Forest of Dean and Severn coalfields.- Meezy Hurst.- Puddlebrook Quarry.- Oakenhill Railway Cutting.- Portishead Pier.- 6 Bristol-Somerset Basin.- Cattybrook Claypit.- BickleyWood.- Winterbourne Railway Cutting.- 7 English Midlands.- Cornbrook Dingle.- Benson's Brook.- Eyemore Railway Cutting.- Brewin's Canal Cutting.- Doulton's Claypit.- Ketley Claypit.- New Hadley Brickworks.- Kingsbury Brickworks.- Halesowen Road Cutting.- Metallic Tileries.- Cheswardine Canal Cutting.- Alveley Grindstone Quarry.- Gospel End Road Cutting.- Webster's Claypit.- 8 North Wales.- The sequence at Dee Bridge.- The sequence at Ruby Brickworks.- 9 Millstone Grit of the Central Province.- Pot Bank Quarry.- Gib Tor.- River Noe.- Mam Tor.- Alport Castles.- Blackden Brook.- Standedge Road Cutting.- Crimsworth Dean.- Derby Delf Quarry.- Ladcastle and Den Quarries.- Great Dib Wood.- Cockwood Gorge.- Rake Dike.- Hodge Clough.- Pule Hill.- Jumble Coppice.- Hathersage Moor.- Harewood Grange.- Yeadon Brickworks.- Harper Clough, Smalley Delf andClosebrow Quarries.- Heys Britannia Quarries.- 10 Coal Measures of the Pennine Basin.- Ridge way Quarry.- Stannington Ruffs.- Ambergate Quarry.- Neepsend Brickworks.- Honley Station Cutting.- Goyt's Moss.- Ravenhead Brickworks.- Neepsend Railway Cutting.- Wharncliffe Crags.- Elland Bypass Cutting.- Lowside Brickworks.- Bradgate Brickworks.- River Tonge, Mill Hill.- Ashclough.- Stairfoot Brickworks.- Nostell Brickyard Quarry.- Carlton Main Brickworks.- 11 Northern England.- Mousegill Beck.- Howick to Seaton Point.- Crag Gill.- Tynemouth to Seaton Sluice.- Wear River Bank.- Cresswell and Newbiggin Shore.- Saltom Bay.- Byre Burn.- Jockie's Syke.- 12 Scottish Basin.- High Smithstone Quarry.- Joppa Shore.- Polhote and Polneul Burns.- Lagrae Burn.- Corrie Foreshore.- Dunaskin Glen.- Inninmore Bay.- East Wemyss to Buckhaven Coast.- References.- Species index.- General index.