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THE memoir described below1 contains detailed accounts of the coalfields of North Staffordshire, especially those of the Pottery and Cheadle Coalfields. The re-survey on the 6-inch scale was commenced in 1898 and completed in 1901. The present volume, which contains detailed descriptions furnished by each geologist of the area surveyed by himself, has been largely written and edited by Mr. Gibson, who personally carried out the greater part of the field-work. It was pointed out by Beete Jukes long ago that, so far as the higher portions of the Coal-measures were concerned, North Staffordshire provided the type development of the Midlands. Mr. Gibson has now established in that region a definite stratigraphical sequence in the comparatively barren strata which conformably overlie the productive Coal-measures, and he has also proved that the same sequence may be recognised in the other coalfields of the Midland area.
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HUGHES, H. The Coalfields of North Staffordshire . Nature 72, 612 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072612a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072612a0