The Chief Heavy Detrital Minerals in the Rocks of the English Midlands

Abstract

The chief features exhibited by the heavy mineral residues from the various formations will now be summarized, but it is difficult to show, by tabulating or otherwise, the differences or resemblances between residues, although such may be quite obvious to the investigator. This is because the differences consist of a sum total of variations in size, shape, colour, and frequency of the mineralscontained in the residues under examination, and it is scarcely possible to indicate such differences in writing, without frequent repetition of words, there by involving a loss in clarity of expression, or if tables be employed, without losing sight of other connected data.