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Bartholomew c1900
Geological Map of the British Isles, scale about 63 miles to 1 inch, published by John Bartholomew, Edinburgh, about 1900?
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The layout of eras, periods, etc is unclear. The strata are:-

  RECENT
  --- 18 Alluvium
  CAINOZOIC OR TERTIARY
  --- 17/16 Pliocene, Oligocene, and Eocene / Upper and Lower
  MESOZOIC OR SECONDARY
  - Cretaceous
  --- 15 Wealden
  --- 14 Oolites
  - Jurassic
  --- 13 Lias
  --- 12 Keuper
  - Triassic
  --- 11 Bunter
  --- 10 Magnesian Limestone
  PALAEOZOIC OR PRIMARY
  - Permian
  --- 9 Red Marls
  - Carboniferous
  --- 8 Coal Measures
  --- 7 Millstone Grit, Culm Measures
  --- 6 Carboniferous Limestone
  - [Devonian]
  --- 5 Devonian and Old Red Sandstone
  - [Silurian]
  --- 4 Upper Silurian
  --- 3 Lower Silurian
  - [Cambrian]
  --- 2 Cambrian
  PRE CAMBRIAN
  --- 1 Torridonian, including Uriconian and Longmynd
  --- M Crystalline Schists of various ages including Lewisian or Hebridian Gneiss
  -
  --- [] Igneous


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