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Studies on the palæozoic soils of North Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Gilbert Wooding Robinson
Gilbert Wooding Robinson
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Adviser in Agricultural Chemistry, University College of North Wales, Bangor
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The soils of North Wales have been studied by the writer during the past four and a half years in field and laboratory. A number of types have been recognised and studied. Further work is necessary to elucidate the properties of the types already identified and to establish fresh types. The purpose of the present paper is to give an account of the soils most typical of the area, namely the soils derived from material of the Pre-Cambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian formations in the counties of Anglesey, Carnarvon and Denbigh. In this group are included soils derived from the weathering of local glacial drift, and the associated sandy, alluvial and peaty soils. The soils formed of newer materials, including later Palæozoic soils and Glacial drift of external origin may form the subject of a separate paper.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , June 1917 , pp. 338 - 384
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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Page 338 note 1 A complete survey of Flintshire soils has been made by Mr C. F. Hill, B.Sc., formcrly research student of this oollege. The Flintshire soils are mainly of later ago than those discussed in the present paper.

Page 338 note 2 A Survey of the soils and Agriculture of Shropshire, Shrewsbury, 1912.

Page 342 note 1 For an account of the Glacial Geology of Western Carnarvonshire, see Jehu, T. J., Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. vol. XLVII, pt. 1, 2.Google Scholar The general outlines of the Geology of North Wales are given in Ramsay’s Geological Survey memoir.

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Page 343 note 2 A large number of the mechanical analyses were performed by my laboratory assistant, Mr H. H. Hughes, whose loyal help is here acknowledged.

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Page 374 note 1 This embankment forms the subject of several pages of Thomas Love Peacock’s Headlong Hall.

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Page 376 note 3 Niedermoor is not used in Weber’s sense as corresponding to Fen, since calcium carbonate is generally lacking from telluric waters in North Wales. Flachmoor would probably be more exact. (See Tansley, loc cit.)

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Page 382 note 1 Ramann, , Bodenhunde, 1911, p. 543.Google Scholar Steinböden Bind Bodenarten, die sich überwiegend aus wenig zersetzten Gesteinsbruchstücken zusammensetzen.

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Page 383 note 1 The writer is indebted to Mr E. J. Roberts, research student of this college, for observations on this point.