Cleal, C.J. & Thomas, B.A. 1996 British Upper Carboniferous Stratigraphy. Geological Conservation Review Series No. 11, JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 0 412 72780 3.

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Contents

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Title page and contents

Acknowledgements

Access to the countryside

Preface

1 Introduction and general background

2 International stage stratotypes

Gill Beck

Blake Brook

River Darwen

Park Clough

Orchard Farm

Little Don

Duckmanton Railway Cutting

Doe Lea

3 Culm Trough

Crackington Coast

Bonhay Road Cutting

Bickleigh Wood Quarry

Clovelly Coast

Abbotsham Coast

Bude Coast

Shipload Bay

4 South Wales

Tenby–Saundersfoot Coast

Marros Sands

Amroth Coast

Nolton Haven

Barland Common

Vale of Neath

Smarts Quarry

Lower House Stream Section

Cwm Gwrelych–Nant Llyn Fach

Nant Uech

Cwm Twrch

Earlswood Road Cutting and Ferryboat Inn Quarry

Blaenrhondda Road Cutting

Trehir Quarry

Penllergaer Railway Cutting

Llammarch Dingle

Brynmawr Road Cutting

Wern Ddu

Coed-y-Darren

5 Forest of Dean and Severn coalfields

Meezy Hurst

Puddlebrook Quarry

Oakenhill Railway Cutting

Portishead Pier

6 Bristol–Somerset Basin

Cattybrook Claypit

Bickley Wood

Winterbourne Railway Cutting

7 English Midlands

Cornbrook Dingle

Benson's Brook

Eyemore Railway Cutting

Brewin's Canal Cutting

Doulton's Claypit

Ketley Claypit

New Hadley Brickworks

Kingsbury Brickworks

Halesowen Road Cutting

Metallic Tileries

Cheswardine Canal Cutting

Alveley Grindstone Quarry

Gospel End Road Cutting

Webster's Claypit

8 North Wales

The sequence at Dee Bridge

The sequence at Ruby Brickworks

9 Millstone Grit of the Central Province

Pot Bank Quarry

Gib Tor

River Noe

Mam Tor

Alport Castles

Blackden Brook

Standedge Road Cutting

Crimsworth Dean

Derby Delf Quarry

Ladcastle and Den Quarries

Great Dib Wood

Cockwood Gorge

Rake Dike

Hodge Clough

Pule Hill

Jumble Coppice

Hathersage Moor

Harewood Grange

Yeadon Brickworks

Harper Clough, Smalley Dell and Closebrow Quarries

Heys Britannia Quarries

10 Coal Measures of the Pennine Basin

Ridgeway Quarry

Stannington Ruffs

Ambergate Quarry

Neepsend Brickworks

Honley Station Cutting

Goyt's Moss

Ravenhead Brickworks

Neepsend Railway Cutting

Wharncliffe Crags

Elland Bypass Cutting

Lowside Brickworks

Bradgate Brickworks

River Tonge, Mill Hill

Ashclough

Stairfoot Brickworks

Nostell Brickyard Quarry

Carlton Main Brickworks

11 Northern England

Mousegill Beck

Howick to Seaton Point

Crag Gill

Tynemouth to Seaton Sluice

Wear River Bank

Cresswell and Newbiggin Shore

Saltom Bay

Byre Burn

Jockie's Syke

12 Scottish Basin

High Smithstone Quarry

Joppa Shore

Polhote and Polneul Burns

Lagrae Burn

Corrie Foreshore

Dunaskin Glen

Inninmore Bay

East Wemyss to Buckhaven Coast

References

Species index

General index

References

Figures