Date Note | Date of base map, used for GBG map? |
Description | Manuscript colouring, with detailed key and notes by George Bellas Greenough, [c.1837-1840], on uncoloured base map 'A Mineralogical and Geological Map of the Coalfields of Lancashire with parts of Yorkshire', by Elias Hall, [1st imprint, 1834]. Greenough no.175. Scale-1:63,660, 100cm x 128cm. Dissected on cloth in case.
An earlier draft is at LDGSL/947/6/D/4/4. |
Administrative History | One of the annotations on the other draft cites the work of James Heywood, 1837. Probably used as part of the research for the second edition of Greenough's Geological Map of England & Wales' (1840).
Note: the base map of this draft is from the first edition, but Greenough has scraped off the tell-tale labels and fossils in the stratigraphical column on the left. On this copy, Greenough has emphasised the location of rivers. |
Publication Note | Information on the three imprints of the base map in Torrens, H & T Ford, "Elias Hall, pioneer mineral surveyor and geologist in the Midlands and Lancashire", 'Mercian Geologist', vol 17 (2011), pp249-261. |