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Geological Society, June 6.Dr. Alfred Harker, president, in the chair.Dr. E. J. Garwood and Edith Goodyear: The geology of the Old Radnor district, with special reference to an algal development in the Woolhope Limestone. The district comprises an inlier of Archean grits and Woolhope Limestone forming an elongated dome bounded by Wenlock Shale. It was regarded by Murchison and the Geological Survey as consisting of Mayhill Sandstone succeeded con- formably by Woolhope Limestone, and they attributed the unfossiliferous character of the sandstone and the abnormal facies of the limestone to alteration by igneous intrusions. Dr. Callaway, in 1900, first suggested that the so-called Mayhill Sandstone was of
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Societies and Academies . Nature 99, 339–340 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099339a0
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