The age of the Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous) rocks proved beneath the Kent Coalfield
- 1 May 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 118 (6) , 703-711
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800033902
Abstract
Summary: The history of research into the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Kent since Dines' 1933 account of the stratigraphy of the coalfield is outlined. Details of the boreholes that have proved Lower Carboniferous are listed, including notes of the significant fossils that have been identified. The age of the Lower Carboniferous rocks is discussed. Two boreholes yielded faunas of Tournaisian age and i4 proved rocks of Holkerian age. No younger Dinantian strata are known from Kent.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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