V.—Notes on the Ash-Slates and Other Rocks of the Lake District

Abstract

Whilst studying the sedimentary roofing-slates of North Wales and Cornwall, and allied materials, my attention was also directed to those most interesting rocks, the ash-slates of the Lake District, often externally so closely resembling some of the Welsh and Cornish examples, though differing so much in origin. In course of time I have collected, and had sections prepared from, a considerable number of specimens from many quarries and other places at various parts of the district, both very fine-grained wellcleaved actual roofing-slates and also the attendant coarser beds.