Hull Geological Society
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(updated 22nd February 2024)
Thursday 21st November 2024 - Zoom talk by Tony Felski about "The Permian Geologyof the Wakefield district".
Abstract: Most of the Wakefield district is underlain
by the Coal Measures of the Carboniferous Period. The sandstone’s siltstones and
coals being deposited in hot, wet and humid tropical swamps. However to the east
of the Wakefield district the geology is totally different having been deposited
in arid deserts and from sub -tropical seas.
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