Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Online: The BGS memoirs for South Wales

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Online: The BGS memoirs for South Wales

I have hunted for these (mostly old) Geological Survey Memoirs online, many times, without finding them.. ..... Now I have discovered them, and below I post the links. They ARE very valuable, since they record in great detail the observations of the old geology field surveyors -- free of any great theorising. Most of the observations are from the early 1900's -- before there were major transformations of the landscape through urban expansion and agricultural "improvement." There is a lot of data in these old documents. In each one the superficial deposits are described towards the end of the volume.

In checking out the geology of particular sites, I often use these memoirs together with the Geology of Britain Viewer:

https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbritain/home.html

Full list of online memoirs:
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/maps/maps.cfc?method=listResults&mapName=&series=&scale=&pageSize=100&start=100

Note: Memoirs were never published for the two map areas in which we are most interested -- 209 St David's and 210 Fishguard. Not sure why........

PS. There are problems with these links -- a common issue with Blogger. I am trying to sort out where the problems lie........

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