scholarly journals V.—On the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field

1897 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Public Museums

For many years the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field has been engaging my attention, and among the species occurring in that district are many of considerable interest. This Coal Field supplied Artis with the specimens which he figured and described in his Antediluvian Phytology.In 1888, at the Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, held at Malton, a committee was formed for the investigation of the Fossil Flora of Yorkshire, and since that date four Reports have been prepared and published based upon specimens submitted to me for examination by private collectors, and from collections contained in public museums. These Reports only contain lists of the species found, and the localities and horizons from which the specimens were derived, with any occasional short notes that might have been thought necessary. All detailed descriptions or critical remarks were deferred, and the present paper is the first of what I hope may be several, dealing more in detail with the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field.

scholarly journals XXVI.—On the Fossil Flora of the South Wales Coal Field, and the Relationship of its Strata to the Somerset and Bristol Coal Field

1895 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Relative Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The South ◽  
White Ash ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
The Relationship

The Coal Measures of the South Wales Coal Field fall into three well-marked divisions:—I. The Upper Pennant or Upper Penllergare Series.II. The Lower Pennant Series.III. The White Ash Series.In 1885 I paid a visit to this Coal Field, with the object of studying its Fossil Flora, hoping by this means to ascertain the relative position of the Welsh Coal Measures to those of the other Coal Fields of Britain.

V.—On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields

1892 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Geological Features ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Coal Fields

The present paper is the second of the series dealing with the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields. As in previous memoirs, I give a short sketch of the Geology of the coal field, merely for the purpose of indicating the relationship of the beds to each other, from which the fossils have been derived.Various memoirs dealing with the geological structure and resources of the Potteries Coal Field have already appeared, but in these the names applied to the different groups of strata which compose the Potteries Coal Field have generally special application to the local geological features, and do not treat of the Coal Field in its wider relationship, when considered as only forming a part of the Coal Measures as developed in Britain. A similar course has usually been taken in the published memoirs of other British Coal Fields, which makes a comparison of their relative ages, from the data given, very difficult.Although the Mollusea have usually been collected and examined, from their great vertical distribution—in some cases extending throughout the whole range of carboniferous rocks—they as a whole afford little data for the determination of the divisions of the Coal Measures, and unfortunately the fossil plants appear to have received little attention when the memoirs of the various coal fields were being prepared.

V.—On the Discovery of Fossil Plants in the Old Hill Marls of the South Staffordshire Coal-field

1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 215-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Newell Arber
Keyword(s):  
Present Knowledge ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The South ◽  
Special Studies

It is unfortunately true that our present knowledge of the fossil flora of the South Staffordshire Coal-field is lamentable, considering its size and importance and the abundance of fossils which it is known to contain. All that has been recorded from this coal-field is contained in a single paper by Dr. Kidston, published twenty-five years ago, on the fossil plants of the Hamstead boring, with the addition more recently of a scanty list of fossils from the Langley Green boring, and some other special studies on certain particular fossils, such as Crossotheca and the fructification of Neuropteris. Prior to these records Hooker alone appears to have described plants from this coal-field.

V.—The Fossil Flora of the Ingleton Coal-Field (Yorkshire)

1912 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Newell Arber
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Upper Carboniferous ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Coal Fields

The Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Ingleton Coal-field in North-West Yorkshire present a difficult study, and at the present time they are very imperfectly known. As mapped by the Geological Survey, there is apparently a perfect succession, passing up from the Yoredales, through the Millstone Grits, to the Lower and Middle Coal-measures. The coal-measures are in part overlain hy a series of red rocks, which have been assigned to the Permian, as in the case of other of the Midland Coal-fields. In the index of the Survey map of the north-eastern portion of the coal-field, the Deep Coal is taken as the top of the Lower, and the bottom of the Middle Coal-measures.

scholarly journals VI.—On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields

1889 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Small Extent ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
North East ◽  
Extreme North ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Coal Fields

On the Fossil Plants collected during the Sinking of the Shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, near Birmingham.The area comprised in the county of Stafford embraces five coal fields—I. The Goldsitch Moss Coal Field, in the extreme north-east of the county.II. The Cheadle and Churnet Valley Coal Field.III. The Wetley and Shafferlong Coal Field.IV. The Coal Field of the Potteries.V. The South Staffordshire Coal Field.The three first mentioned are of small extent, and as I know little of their fossil flora they are omitted from this series of papers on the Carboniferous Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields.I, however, devote a separate communication to the fossil plants met with while sinking the shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, as a considerable part of the rocks passed through during this operation is clearly Upper Coal Measures, not Permian, as has been generally stated. The palæontological evidence, therefore, becomes of special importance in determining the age of the red shales occurring in the upper part of this sinking, which have been usually mapped as Permian.

scholarly journals V.—On the Fossil Flora of the Yorkshire Coal Field. (Second Paper.)

1900 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Great Frequency ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Coal Measures

Among the specimens from the Yorkshire Coal Field which have been collected by Mr W. Hemingway, Barnsley, and submitted to me for examination at various times, are the remains of several cones which are referable to the genus Sigillariostrobus, Schimper.Notwithstanding the great frequency of the genus Sigillaria in the Coal Measures, and especially in the Middle Coal Measures, examples of their fructification are very rare. This is the more remarkable, as specimens of Sigillaria, showing cone scars, though not common, are occasionally met with. Possibly, however, the apparent rarity of Sigillarian cones is due, in part, to our inability at present to distinguish them in all cases from cones generally placed under the name of Lepidostrobus, which latter genus there is every reason to believe comprises cones that belong to several genera of Lycopods.

V.—On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields.

1914 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The North ◽  
Coal Fields

The first of this series of papers, that on the “Fossil Plants collected during the sinking of the shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, near Birmingham,” was published in 1888, and the second, dealing with the “Fossil Flora of the Coal Field of the Potteries,” in 1891.Since that date the North Staffordshire Coal Field has been re-surveyed by members of the Geological Survey, and the result of this re-examination of the geology of the Potteries Coal Field was the classification of the strata into several well-defined groups.

II.—Notes on the Fossil Flora of the Bristol Coal-Field

1910 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Lillie
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Flora ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Plant Remains

More than twenty-three years have now passed since Dr. Kidston published his memoir on the fossil flora of the Somerset and Bristol Coal-field, and in the meanwhile no further additions to our knowledge have been made. Kidston's paper was chiefly concerned with the plant-remains of the southern or Radstock portion of the basin. Those from the northern or Bristol area have only been studied incidentally. This would seem quite natural on account of the greater size and industrial importance of the Radstock Coal Series, and from the fact that this locality has been long known to yield the finest and best preserved impressions of fossil plants to be found in any coal-field in the British Isles. The collieries in the Bristol district are comparatively few and smaller, fossil plants being much scareer and less well preserved.

scholarly journals XVII.—On the Fossil Flora of the Radstock Series of the Somerset and Bristol Coal Field (Upper Coal Measures)

1888 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Distribution ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
The Vertical Distribution ◽  
Coal Fields

My attention for the last few years having been specially directed to the vertical distribution of the Carboniferous Fossil Flora, it is my intention to publish a series of papers dealing with this subject.While carrying on these investigations it has been necessary, in addition to visiting public and private collections, to visit several of the coal fields for the purpose of collecting specimens, as in almost no case have the smaller and less attractive species been secured, and, as a rule, only what strikes the ordinary collector as being “a fine specimen” is preserved, to the exclusion of many less striking but often more valuable examples. Hence our public collections, and, with few exceptions, also our private collections, give a very imperfect idea of the richness of the flora of the Carboniferous Formation of Britain.

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