A collection of geological facts and practical observations, intended to elucidate the formation of the Ashby Coal-field. In the parish of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the neighbouring district; being the result of forty years' esperience and research / By Edward Mammatt. Illustrated by a map and profiles, coloured sections of the stratification and one hundred and two plates of vegetable fossils, after drewings taken from nature, by Robert Ironmonger.

  • Mammatt, Edward, 1807-1860.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A collection of geological facts and practical observations, intended to elucidate the formation of the Ashby Coal-field. In the parish of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the neighbouring district; being the result of forty years' esperience and research / By Edward Mammatt. Illustrated by a map and profiles, coloured sections of the stratification and one hundred and two plates of vegetable fossils, after drewings taken from nature, by Robert Ironmonger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When coal and other minerals were raised from beds near the surface, shafts were frequently sunk; but, as the same measures were passed * \ through, nothing new was elicited; whereas, in deep mines, the shafts are so placed as to endure for twenty or even fifty years. Hence it is obvious, from the depth of mines, and from other reasons combined with the slow progress of changes in such operations, that a long period must pass away before details can be collected. Owners and workers of mines might mutually aid each other, if they would publish exact records of all the mi- nutiae appertaining to the strata; and, by the same means, the sciences of Mining and Geology would be rendered more clear and useful as well as entertaining, by a right application of the satisfactory results which would thus be obtained. The Facts relating to that part of the Ashby Coal-Field, which is de¬ scribed in the present volume, were originally collected for private use, and without any view to their future publication. But, on considering that scarcely any Work, hitherto published, contains details of manage¬ ment, or adverts to the causes of irregularities, or suggests means of re¬ moving difficulties, the present writer was induced to believe that if the series of observations made on this Coal-Field, during a long period, were thrown together, they might confer some practical benefit on those who conduct the processes of mining in the immediate district; and, at the same time, assist the praise-worthy exertions of those philosophers who are now labouring to promote geological inquiry.