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Marine Permian of England (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Marine Permian of England (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy
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This book is concerned almost wholly with a diverse suite of
carbonate rocks that were formed near the margins of shallow
tropical seas during the last 5-7 million years of the Permian
period (300-251 Ma). These unique rocks, collectively known as the
Magnesian Limestone, have been studied for more than 160 years and
the names of some of the early workers - Geinitz, Murchison,
Phillips, Sedgwick, Sorby - would grace any geological hall of
fame. Despite this formidable assault, and the efforts of a host of
later workers, the Magnesian Limestone still retains many of its
secrets. Permian marine rocks crop out on both sides of the
Pennines, but those of the Zechstein Sea to the east are by far the
thicker and more varied, and in these lie all but one of the sites
selected for special protection. Detailed accounts of the rocks in
26 such sites form about half of this book and the normal and
special features of these sites are compared, contrasted and placed
in their mutual context in the remainder of the book. The sites
were selected according to a range of criteria, including
uniqueness, representativeness, historical importance and
suitability for teaching purposes and research; most are inland
quarries but a few are in the unrivalled coastal cliffs of
classical County Durham where the main difficulty lies in deciding
what not to select.
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