On the Halesowen Sandstone Series of the South Staffordshire Coalfield, and the Petrified Wood found therein at the Witley Colliery, Halesowen (Worcestershire)

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T he present paper deals with the higher beds of the Coal Measures, as developed in the South Staffordshire Coalfield. The generally accepted subdivision of the Upper Carboniferous rocks in this coalfield is:— (4) Keele Series = Lower Permian. (3) Halesowen Sandstone Series. (2) Red Coal-Measures Clays or Old-Hill Marls. (1) Productive Measures. The object of the present communication is to described in greater detail than has yet been attempted the Halesowen Sandstone Series, and more especially its relationship to the Keele Series above, and the Red Coal-Measures Clays below. Special attention to the Halesowen rocks has been stimulated by the fine natural exposures elsewhere (as shown in the sequel), and by the further discovery of the remarkable petrified wood found at Whitley. The paper is not an exhaustive account of the strata descibed, but merely an attempt to throw light upon a hitherto neglected subject. I am indebted to Prof. Charles Lapworth for much encouragement in my work, and to Dr. Walcot Gibson for valuable suggestions. I am particularly indebted to Dr. E. A. Newell Arber for his scientific description of the petrified wood, and for the assistance that he has given in regard to the arrangement of the paper. I would also return my thanks to Mr. W. H. Foxall, the Hon. Secretary of the Birmingham Natural History & Philosophical Society, for photographs and for assistance in the field; and to Mr. Jew, the Manager of Witley

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