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THIS latest memoir contains a description of the joint coalfields of Leicestershire a_nd South Derbyshire, commonly known as the Leicestershire coalfield. It is one of the smallest coalfields of the Midland counties, and is cut off from the Warwickshire and Derbyshire coalfields by an uplift of older strata. It includes an area of about sixty square miles in Leicester-shire, and about sixteen square miles in South Derbyshire. Its exact limit nas, however, not yet. been proved. A large portion, of the area is covered by Triassic rocks, so that the Coal-measures only come to the surface over twenty-four square rrfiles. Although one of the smallest coalfields, it is one of. the most ancient, having been worked to some -extent from time immemorial. The earliest mention of coals-being worked in the district is in the reign of King John in 1204.
The Geology of the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield.
By C. Fox-Strangways. Pp. vi + 373. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1907.) Price 6s.
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The Geology of the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield . Nature 77, 364 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077364a0
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