36 0 Sinking. Downs Pit. The sands 25 Do. do. 3 3 26 0 Middle Pit. Sinking (vol. iv., page 120). West Pit. What has been taken here as Marl-slate is given as 2 feet 3 inches of blue metal and 1 foot of white metal. What the latter may be is doubtful. 2 4 Boring, 1793 (vol. iii., page 219). This is a very doubtful section; a limestone 1 foot 8 inches thick is said to underlie the "marl with sand in open gullets" which is here taken as the Yellow Sands. 62 10 Sinking (vol. ii., page 275). George Pit. The upper part of what is probably the Marl-slate is said to be a "yellow clay." 63 0 Sinking (vol. ii., page 277). Isabella Pit. In this case the lower portion of the probable Marlslate is said to be clay. 29 South Hetton Col- 20 None 33 (?) 60 0 None Sinking (vol. v., page 162). Engine Pit. Boring (vol. ii., page 266). The sand was merely touched by the boring. Boring (vol. iii., page 168) near Shotton. Sinking to sand, then Boring (vol. 143 8 Boring (vol. iii., page 172). No. 1 36 Do.* * Mr. T. Y. Hall states that, at the Old Haswell Pit, the quicksands (or the Yellow Sands) were 12) fest thick; that in one borehole "where the present pit is" there were none whatever, and that in the next one the hole was in 96 feet of sands. "The Extent and Probable Duration of the Northern Coal-field" Trans. N.E. Inst, 1854, vol. ii., second edition, pages 178 and 179 Remarks. 24 2 Boring (vol. v, page 145). The 4 3 4 (?) 37 0 Sinking (vol. v., page 148). New 36 0 60 0 Many fishes were got from the Marl-slate here. The latter has at its base thin brown clay in layers, alternating with the calcareous slabs.* None None None or None Boring (vol. iii.. page 287) by the side of the lane from Kelloe to Cassop Hill. Low Sinking (vol. iii., page 289). North Sinking (vol. iii., page 291). New 1 11(?) Boring (vol. ii., page 151), 1840. The Yellow Sands may be absent altogether. The 1 foot 11 inches bed given here is described as a "strong grey post, with water," and is possibly Coal-measures. Mr. W. Hutton, op. jam cit., page 65, says that from Houghton-le-Spring towards Moorsley and Pittington, and in the quarry at Thickley, an unctuous clay, as well as alternations as above described, is common at the bottom of the Marl-slate. 49 Coxhoe Colliery 50 Cornforth Mar-slate. Yellow Ft. Ins. (?) Ft. Ins. (?) None (?) 5 2 None Remarks. Sinking (vol. ii., page 152). New Winning, 1843. The information in this section is useless for the present purpose. Boring (vol. ii., page 110). Boring (vol. ii., page 113). "Hills and Holes." None (?) Boring (vol. ii., page 119). 1839. 600 feet west of Garmondsway Public house. "Brown post with water, 12 feet, may possibly represent the Yellow Sands here. None (?) Boring (vol. ii., page 120). 1842. South of Symside Hill. Here again 5 feet 5 inches of "brown sandy post" may represent the Sands. None 55 Garmondsway Moor Colliery 5 9 (?) None 56 None 57 Do. do. 1 10 Garmondsway Moor 2 0 (?) Sinking (vol. ii., page 123). George Pit. Here the basement-bed of the Permian is said to be "blue limestone with post girdles," 10 feet. Sinking (vol. iii., page 77). West of Anne pit. Boring (vol. iii., page 77). mile south of pit. None (?) Boring (vol. iii., page 79). Second hole, 1840. Here a bed of sand 4 inches thick is recorded 18 feet above the Marl-slate. "Brown post with water, 11 feet" beneath the Marl-slate may possibly represent the Sands. Sinking (vol. v., page 322). 1845. 0 9 (?) None (?) inking (vol. v., page 323). New Pit, 1872. What has here been taken as the Marl-slate is a thin bed called "strong metal girdle," beneath which come 26 feet of "hard blue limestone, full of spar. Below this again are 22 feet of "soft white post, with partings"; this may be the Yellow Sands? Above the 9 inches (?) of Marl-slate are 4 feet 2 inches of "soft dark gritty sand." A very abnormal section. 20 10 Sinking (vol. v., page 318), "sunk in Trimdon staple," 1842. The section of the Sands is here very complete, namely: Light yellow sands, 4 inches; yellow clay 60 Trimdon Colliery ... 1 6 The partings, 12 feet; dark yellow (?) 14 9 Sinking (vol. v., page 320), 1843. The Marl-slate is no doubt a portion of what is given in this section as 37 feet 6 inches of "dark metal" lying on the Sands, which here consist of 14 feet 6 inches of "brown sandy post with soft partings and water" with 3 inches of yellow partings" at top. 3 11 10 0 (?) 4 6 None None 31 0 Sinking and Boring (vol. iv., page 1841. 314). Boring (vol. v., page 282). 1,050 feet north by east of the Hall. Boring (vol. V., page 285). Fourth hole, "in the first sink. ing pit," 1836. None (?) Boring (vol. V., page 288). Eleventh hole, 600 feet north of first pit. 1837. A difficult section. The beds about the Permo Carboniferous junction are given thus: Permian? : Gullety limestone, 6 feet 3 inches; sand, 2 feet; red and grey metal, 1 foot; limestone, 6 feet; brown post with water, 2 feet. Coal-measures? : Red and blue metal, 1 foot 6 inches; sand, 6 inches; and dark metal, 2 feet 6 inches. None (?) Boring (vol. V., page 289). Twelfth hole, Whinney Hill. A "white post" 5 feet thick may represent the Yellow Sands. Boring (vol. v., page 290). 639 feet from the Old Coal Pit." Sinking (vol. v., page 291). Jane Pit, 1867. None None None (?) Boring (vol. iii., page 30) None (?) Boring (vol. iii., page 38). "Near Fishburn." Boring (vol. iii., page 39). Third hole, "in Miss Boring (vol. iii., page 137). I hole, 1,500 feet from Sprucely None (?) Boring (vol. iii., page 138). No. 2 hole,450 feet from Bishop Middleham Village, 1839. A thick "brown freestone with water' may possibly represent the Sands. Boring (vol. ii., page 38). 1828. Chilton's No. None 78 Chilton Colliery Remarks. 6 5(2) Boring (vol. ii., page 39). 19 0 (?) Boring (vol. ii., page 41). 69 0(?) Sinking (vol. ii., page 43). None None 79 Mainsforth Colliery 80 Bishop Middleham 9 6 Colliery 81 Ryal... No. 1 Shaft, 1872. The sands in all these Chilton sections are doubtful Sinking (vol. iv., page 48). B Pit. Sinking (vol. i., page 147). Bishop Middleham Pit, 1846. Boring (vol. iv, page 320). 1874. Although this is a diamondboring, yet the record leaves one quite in the dark as to the details of the junction-beds; "limestone" and "sandstone' is all that is given. None (?) Boring (vol. iv., page 305). 1875. Here again, though the Marl-slate is given, it is not possible to say whether the None 66 grey post" which come below and is underlain by "yellow sandstone," may not possibly represent the Yellow Sands. Boring (vol. iv., page 85). 1,500 feet south-east of village, 1837. None (?) Sinking (vol. iv., page 86). Charles Pit. A "yellow post immediately beneath the limestone may possibly represent the Yellow Sands. Boring (vol. v., page 267). Right hand of lane leading to Middridge, 1834. Boring (vol. iv., page 196). 2} None miles east of Rusheyford. Boring (vol. iv., page 198). 240 None feet south from Stoney Hall. Boring (vol. iv., page 199). In field near Standalone. Diamond-boring, 1888. The 40 feet of dark grey limestone is the lowest Permian in this section, and of this the bottom portion may be Marl-slate. The 27 feet 6 inches of grey and re sandstone beneath are in all probability Coal-measures and not "Lower New Red Sandstone" as given in the record. (Mr. W. J. Bird, Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc., 1888, vol. xix., page 572.)* Trans, Inst. M.E., 1890, vol. i., page 343. |