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Contents
(Front cover) Front cover.
Title page and preliminaries
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of photographs
Acknowledgements
Foreword
A guide to this audit
Part 1 Geodiversity
Defining geodiversity
The relevance of geodiversity
Aims and objectives of this geodiversity audit
The influence of geology in County Durham
Conserving earth science within County Durham
Part 2 The geodiversity of County Durham
The geological evolution of County Durham
Ordovician rocks
Carboniferous rocks — introduction
Dinantian rocks
Namurian rocks
Westphalian rocks
Permian rocks — introduction
Yellow Sands Formation
Marl Slate Formation
The Magnesian Limestone
Intrusive igneous rocks
Metamorphic rocks
Geological structures
Mineral veins and flats
Quaternary deposits
Karst features
Landforms
Soils
Fossils and palaeontology
Minerals and mineralogy
Geophysics
Geochemistry
Use of the resource
Extractive industries
Abandoned quarries
Active quarries
Abandoned underground mines
Active underground mines
Spoil heaps
The built environment
Understanding the resource
County Durham's place in the development of geological science
Archives and materials collections
Documentary sources
Materials collections
Collecting of geological materials
Geological societies
Interpreting earth science within County Durham
Glossary
Selected bibliography
Figures, photographs and tables
