10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULM MEASURES»
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Culm Measures in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Culm Measures and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
considered, both from its structure and its fossils, as near the doubtful limit
between the Upper Cambrian and Lower Silurian Systems. II. Culm measures. —
This series is described (as in a former paper) to occupy a great trough, which
ranges ...
2
London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of ...
... and a comparatively thin band to the lower Silurian strata: and we further
showed that the culm measures of Devon, so far from being mere courses
subordinate to these older rocks, constituted, in fact, a vast basin or trough of
carbonaceous ...
3
The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal ...
The region thus bounded is composed of one great formation (occupying more
than a third of the whole county), to which the authors give the name of Culm
Measures. 4. The fourth region includes all the country occupied by slate rocks, ...
line of the culm-measures in the north of Devon, are brought up in the south
through the upper culm-measures, throwing them, and at times irregular portions
of the overlying killas, off on either shoulder with a counter or reversed dip north
and ...
5
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
... limestone, and to the lower formations exposed on the banks of the Lenne,
towards Altena. In this section there is no ambiguity, and the defective evidence
in the sections of Devonshire, when we endeavour to connect the culm-
measures ...
6
The Silurian System: founded on geological researches in the ...
In other parts round the northern lip of this coal tract, where it extends inland to
the north of Brawdy and by Roche Bridge, the dark coloured culm measures
being separated from the purple Cambrian rock, by a zone of unconformable,
light ...
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1839
7
The silurian system, founded on geological researches in the ...
In other parts round the northern lip of this coal tract, where it extends inland to
the north of Brawdy and by Roche Bridge, the dark coloured culm measures
being separated from the purple Cambrian rock, by a zone of unconformable,
light ...
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1839
8
Transactions Of The Geological Society
But in noticing the fossils, it is almost necessary (as our sections have no well-
defined base) to take a reversed order, and commence with the upper division of
the culm-measures. 1. Culm Measures.—In the first place, then, we have nothing
to ...
9
Transactions of the geological society, established November ...
But in noticing the fossils, it is almost necessary (as our sections have no well-
defined base) to take a reversed order, and commence with the upper division
ofthe culm-measures. 1. Culm Measures»-In the first place, then, we have
nothing to ...
10
The British Islands and Their Vegetation
All these, so far as can be ascertained, bore sessile oakwood, damp and dry on
the shales and sandstones respectively. Culm measures. Carboniferous rocks
occupy about half the surface of Devonshire, where they are collectively known ...
A. G. Tansley (Sir), 1949
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CULM MEASURES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Culm Measures is used in the context of the following news items.
Saving the culm grasslands - how farmers and conservationists are …
Sir Hugh, who has been an enthusiastic supporter of the culm measures project for a number of years and who works with the Commoners who ... «Western Morning News, Jun 15»
Farmers and conservationists in £14 million effort to cut flooding and …
“In the 1970s farmers were paid large sums of money to grub up orchards and drain the culm measures,” he said. “ But I think farmers are today ... «Western Morning News, Jun 15»
Culm grassland is known for its rich biodiversity
... as the Culm Measures, laid down in the Carboniferous period (about 300 million years ago) in north-west Devon and north-east Cornwall. «North Devon Journal, Apr 14»
Making a home for rare wildlife
The Culm Measures area of north Devon covers 60,000 hectares and is in three pockets. One of the aims of the Working Wetlands Project is to ... «BBC News, Jul 10»
