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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. GENERAL ACCOUNT 2
3. UPPER CARBONIFEROUS
3.1 Millstone Grit Group
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4. TRIASSIC
4.1 Sherwood Sandstone Group
4.1.1 Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation
4.2 Mercia Mudstone Group
4.2.1 Sneinton Formation
4.2.2 Radcliffe Formation
4.2.3 Gunthorpe Formation
4.2.4 Edwalton Formation
5. QUATERNARY
5.1 ‘Older Drift’
5.1.1 Oadby Till
5.1.2 Findern Clay
5.2 River Terrace Deposits of the Trent and Dove
5.2.1 Eagle Moor Sand and Gravel
5.2.2 Etwall Sand and Gravel
5.2.3 Egginton Common Sand and Gravel
5.2.4 Holme Pierrepont Sand and Gravel
5.2.5 River Terrace Deposits, undifferentiated
5.3 Alluvium
5.4 Head
6. STRUCTURE
6.1 Strata1 dip
6.2 Faults
6.3 Folds
7. OTHER INFORMATION
7.1 Artificial Ground
7.1.1 Worked Ground
7.1.2 Made Ground
7.1.3 Landscaped Ground
7.2 Mineral Resources
7.2.1 Brick Clay and Mar1
7.2.2 Sand and gravel
7.3 Water Supply
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