Yorkshire Sedimentary Stratigraphy

Scope and Content

Notebook compiles Harker’s observations on the sedimentary succession of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, circa 1878 onwards. Including a ‘General Succession of Strata’ (page 1); list of research papers relating to the various stratigraphic units (page 2); a list of glacial deposits of the region, an account that Harker relates after Geikie, and also mentions a periglacial shell bed in the cliffs at Filey (pages 18-19); a list of rock types found in the Boulder Clay of Yorkshire, and Harker mentions a rock type resembling ‘Haggis rock’, a Silurian grit (page 23); mention of the “Bridlington Crag”, a deposit of shells in the Scarborough Museum [?Rotunda Museum] (page 31); a stylised cross-section of cliffs near Flamborough Head (page 37); list of representative fossils which may be found at the ‘Danes Dyke’ locality; watercolour geological cross-section of the chalk cliffs at Flamborough (page 41); coloured section between Danes Dyke and Speeton Cliffs (page 43); description of Red Chalk (page 49); list of the divisions of the Speeton Clay after John Wesley Judd, and representative fossil species for each division are listed (page 51); a detailed stratigraphic column is figured ranging from the Lower Calciferous Grits to the Upper Greensand (pages 56-57); stratigraphic section at Filey Brigg (after Phillips) (page 62); a coloured cross-section from Filey to Red Cliff (page 63); a coloured section near Scarborough Castle (page 65); a coloured cross-section between Cayton Bay and Scarborough Castle (page 77); section between Scalby Bridge and Haiburn Wyke (page 79); a description of the Liassic rocks of Yorkshire (page 93); a geological section between Sandsend and Runswick Bay (page 99); a section between Runswick Bay and Staithes (page 101); description of the Rhaetic Beds of Yorskhire (page 122); list of the belemnite fossil species recorded from Yorkshire at the time (page 149); index of localities with pagination where they are mentioned in this notebook (pages 150-153).

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