Notes on the Drift-deposits of the Valley of the Severn, in the Neighbourhood of Coalbrook Dale and Bridgnorth

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The general subject of the drift-deposits distributed so abundantly throughout the counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Shropshire, and Cheshire, and extending east and west beyond their limits, has been so frequently and fully written upon, by Sir R. I. Murchison in his ‘Silurian System,’ by the Rev. W. S. Symonds in the ‘Transactions of the Malyern Naturalists’ Field-Club,’ by Professor Buckman in his ‘Ancient Straits of malvern,’ and by Mr. Prestwich, the Rev. Mr. Lister, and others in the ‘Transactions’ and ‘Quarterly Journal’ of the Geological Society, that, in recording my observations, I am enabled to add but little to what is already known; and my reason for making a further communication on the subject is that some remarkably good sections of the drift have recently been exposed in the cuttings of the Severn Valley, Wenlock, and Coalbrook Dale Railways, some of which, in connexion with old sections exposed in gravel-pits, enable examination to be made of superimposed strata upwards of 200 feet in thickness.

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