CHEMICAL DATA FOR THE ROCKS OF THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT
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The following notes are intended to give a complete record of chemical work to the present date on the rocks of the English Lake District, that name being employed in an extended sense to include the Lake District proper, together with the Lower Palaeozoic inliers of Edenside, Sedbergh, and Ingleton, which belong to the same natural district.This compilation should have accompanied the Petrographical Notes prepared for the Keswick excursion; and published in the last number of these Proceedings (Vol.XIV., pp.487-496), but it was not completed in time to be included there.Most of the items have appeared in an article published in " The N a t u r a l i s t " for 1899, but I have now added a number of supplementary references to bring the list down to date, and have rearranged the whole to correspond with the notes already published in these Proceedings.I give first a summary of the literature of the subject.Then follows the list of analyses, partial analyses, and silica determinations, the silica percentage being quoted in each the readiest means of identification.To each record is appended the name of the analyst and, in parenthesis, the reference to the original publication.In the case of a number of silica determinations made by students of Owens College and the Yorkshire College, under the superintendence of Dr. A. Harden and Dr.Keywords:
Lake district