Note 65 — Chapter VIII · PRE-CAMBRIAN VOLCANOES

See especially chap. xix. vol. i. p. 225.

[66] The area is embraced in Sheet 61 of the Geological Survey, and is illustrated by Nos. 33 and 36 of the sheets of Horizontal Sections. In the early editions of the Survey maps the "felspathic traps" and the "greenstones" of the Wrekin district were distinguished by separate colours, but unfortunately this useful and so far correct discrimination was given up in subsequent editions, where all the acid and basic rocks are merged into one.