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ONE of the most important geological memoirs issued of late years is the “Sketch of the Geology of the Birmingham District,” by Prof. Lapworth, F.R.S., with contributions by Prof. W. W. Watts and Mr. W. Jerome Harrison: a companion work to that on the “Geology of South Shropshire,” by Profs. Lapworth and Watts, issued four years ago. The present work, like the one just mentioned, was prepared with special reference to the areas to be visited by the Geologists' Association during their long summer excursion. It is not merely a lucid summary of the facts already made known; it contains the latest results of the work done by the author and his associates. The “Birmingham district” is admittedly a large one, being the region within a radius of about thirty-five miles from the city. Thus we find references to the Archæan or Pre-Cambrian rocks of Malvern and the Abberley Hills, of the Wrekin and Lickey Hills, of the Caldecote district and Charnwood Forest. It is stated that the Charnwood or “Charnian Rocks” are theoretically paralleled with the Lower Longmyndian and its volcanic equivalents, and the Caldecote rocks, together with the Barnt Green rocks of the Lickey, are grouped with the Upper Longmyndian and Uriconian.
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Geology of Birmingham. Nature 59, 115 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059115b0
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