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Page Faults, Trough, Dudley Port 163 explanation of 194 High Bridge 170 Rising Sun 170 Tansy Green 158 variation in throw of 192 Figgins, Mr., the late, of Brereton 104 Fine coal (part of Thick coal) 21 Fine floors coal (part of Thick coal) 21 Fire-clay balls ironstone 22, 63 coal 20, 22, 25, 65 or Cinder coal 24, 26 description of 16 Finnstone, Mr., deep pit at the Leys ironworks sunk by 63, 67, 82 Fish, fossil, in coal 20, 27 New Red sandstone 5 Five-foot coal of Bentley and the neighbourhood, part of the New Mine 26 Flavell, Mr., pit sunk at the Stone House near Harborne by 106, 167 Fletcher, Mr., of Dudley, cabinet of fossils 113 Floors (part of Thick coal) 21 Flying-reed coal 18 bearing of, on question of formation of coal 203 crops south of Lanesfield fault 87 possibly the same as the Old Robins coal of Wyrley 26 near Bilston 36 near Kingswinford 37 Foot coal (part of Thick coal) 21, 35 Forbes, Prof Edw., on fossils in ironstone 58 Formation of coal, question considered 201 Fossil plants in New Red sandstone 188 Fossils, list of, from Llandovery sandstone at Shustoke Lodge 110 marine, between New Mine and Pennystone ironstones 58 of Coal-measures, note on, by J. W. Salter 27 of Upper Silurian rocks, note on, by J. W. Salter 112 Foster, Messrs., pits at Shut End 82 mode of working Thick coal 221 Four-foot coal of Essington 89, 96 Foxyards, near Dudley, Bottom coal at 83 Fire-clay coal at 66 New Mine stone at 56 coal 62 Poor Robin and Rough Hills, white ironstones at 69 thick coal at 35 Fractured beds gape and include wedges of rock 197 Frankley Beeches, Permian rocks at 9, 186 Friezeland colliery, Fire-clay coal at 65 G. "Gainies" top of a coal, that which is first gained in sinking 69 Gap in Thick coal 194 Gas escaping from ground near Wigmore station, east of West bromwich 178 General description of Coal-measures of position and lie of rocks 140 General effect of the Brockmoor, Corbyn's Hall, and Shut End faults 159 form of Palæozoic district 140 section of southern part of coal-field 20 of northern part of coal-field 23 Geological knowledge, practical value of 192 George, Mr. James, of Bentley, 53, 88, 165, 167 Getting rock ironstone 22, 67 Gibbons, Mr. B., 42, 63, 81, 158, 221 Giles, Mr., limestone pit of 107 Gilpin, Mr., the late 89 Mr. Bernard, 90, 91, 97, 101, 169, 171 Gob, meaning of 75 of Thick coal, spontaneous combustion of 151 or waste 221 Goldthorn Hill, shaft for waterworks at 184 Gornal clay works 53, 57, 71 Gornal Wood, faults near 159 green rock supposed to go up into faults at 132 Goscott, Bottom coal at 72 Green rock at 130 Gough's Arms, Great Barr, Permian conglomerate near 13 Gower pits, rock fault in 45 Grace Mary colliery 43, 121 Grains ironstone 21 Granite boulders over coal-field 207 Gravel drift at Smethwick 208 Graveyard trial pits 62, 66, 68 Gray, Mr. J., of Dudley, cabinet of 113 Great Bentley fault 143 Great Bridge colliery 30, 34 Great Gubbin 22 Green, Mr., of Causeway Green colliery 44, 50 Green rock at Stow Heath and Portobello 103 same as Greenstone 117 sheets of in lower Coal-measures between Rowley Hills and Wednesfield 127 Greenstone 3, 117 consolidated below surface 130 intrusive 131 supposed to obliterate measures 128 sheets and bosses on the west and south-west of Dudley 126
