British Stratigraphy

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-4

   PDF

2. Geological History

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 5-9

3. The Pre-Cambrian Era

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 9-11

4. The Lower Palaeozoic Geosyncline

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 12-16

5. The Caledonian Mountain-building

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 17-20

6. Devonian Environments

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 20-23

7. The Lower Carboniferous Marine Transgression

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 23-24

8. The Upper Carboniferous Deltas and Coal Swamps

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 24-27

9. The Armorican Mountain-building

   • F. A. Middlemiss

   Pages 27-28

10. The Permo-Triassic Desert Environment

    • F. A. Middlemiss

    Pages 28-31

11. The Fluctuating Shelf-seas of the Jurassic

    • F. A. Middlemiss

    Pages 31-35

12. The Cretaceous Marine Transgression

    • F. A. Middlemiss

    Pages 35-38

13. Tertiary Cycles of Sedimentation and Igneous Activity

    • F. A. Middlemiss

    Pages 38-42

14. The Alpine Mountain-building and the Later Tertiary

    • F. A. Middlemiss

    Pages 42-45

15. The Quaternary Glaciations

    • F. A. Middlemiss

    Pages 45-47

16. Back Matter

    Pages 48-49

    PDF

This book is primarily intended to assist candidates studying geology for the Ordinary Level of G.c.E., and examinations of comparable standard, but it should also be found useful by the" reader requiring a rapid conspectus of the geological history of Britain, and as forming a basis for more advanced work. The scope of the subject matter necessitated a narrow and slippery path be­ tween over-simplification and excessive detail, but the balance adopted is based upon the experience of many years of teaching at all levels, and of examining for the London G.C.E. Board. The maps, combining outcrop dis­ tribution with palaeogeography, presented some difficulty, especially for periods of continuously changing geography, such as the Cretaceous. It was necessary in these cases to make an arbitrary choice of one small part of the period, the geography of which could be illustrated. Candidates are advised not to spend time learning every detail of the outcrop patterns, but to con­ centrate upon the main areas of outcrop. I am indebted to Mrs. Jean Fyffe for the cartographic work.

• Cambrian
• Carboniferous
• Cretaceous
• Deltas
• Devonian
• Jurassic
• Paleozoic
• Triassic
• desert
• environment
• geography
• marine
• sediment
• sedimentation
• stratigraphy

• Queen Mary College, University of London, UK

  F. A. Middlemiss

Policies and ethics