| Description | Geological colouring, with extensive geographical, palaeontological and geological notes (several on caves and potholes), by George Bellas Greenough, [1829-1839], on base map 'County of York, surveyed in 1767...', engraved by T Jeffreys, published by William Faden, 1786. Greenough no.307. Scale-1:55,000. Dissected on cloth in box, each sheet c.61 x 62cm |
| Administrative History | A note on one corner of sheet Vol 2, B7 states "All this information is inserted in Mr Greenough's Map - May 18?9" [appears to read 1829, but more likely to be 1839]
Amongst the references are: Adam Sedgwick's paper "On the Phenomena connected with Trap Dykes in Yorkshire and Durham", Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society', vol 2 (1827); John Phillips, presumably his book "Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire" (first vol published in 1829), a section taken from Sedgwick's "Description of a Series of Longitudinal and Transverse Sections through a Portion of the Carboniferous Chain between Penigent and Kirkby Stephen", Transactions of the Geological Society of London, S2, 4 (1835). |
| CustodialHistory | The entry in the 1860 catalogue stated that there were originally 20 sheets, but only 11 have survived. |