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RefNoCLP/9i/69
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'An account of the strata in coal mines' by John Strachey
Date[1724]
DescriptionFour manuscript pages and two plates showing the geology of the earth in coal mines in Somersetshire.

Paper describes the composition of the strata in hills and coal mines in the Mendip Hills, the Cotswolds, Marlborough Downs, and Salisbury Plains.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the strata in coal-mines, &c'.

Read to the Royal Society on 10 June 1725
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1724.0073
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 33 (1724), p 395
RelatedRecordRBO/12/20
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CodePersonNameDates
NA311Strachey; John (1671 - 1743)1671 - 1743
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