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The Fossils of the Culm Measure Limestones around Holcombe Rogus

Rev. W. Downes. Trans. Devon. Assoc., 1878, Vol. X, pp. 330-334.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The paper was presented at the Association’s July 1878 Paignton meeting.  The Culm Measures are a thick sequence of geological strata originating during the Carboniferous Period that occur principally in Devon and Cornwall. It is now known by geologists as the Culm Supergroup. Its estimated thickness varies between 3600 metres and 4750 metres, though intense folding complicates it at outcrop. These unique types of rock are so named because of the occasional presence of a soft, sooty coal known in Devon as ‘Culm’. Scholarly papers of this sort are invaluable to the genealogist since they provide the names of those important in our county’s early scientific history. The author was an enthusiastic student of geology, especially that branch of the science relating to fossils, and read several papers at various times to the Geological Society, of which he was a Fellow, as well as to the Geological Section of the British Association. His obituary is available in GENUKI here. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitization of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.