The Geology of the East Midlands

Cover photographs: Front: Cross-bedded fluvial pebbly sandstones of the Triassic, Nottingham Castle Sandstone Formation (Sherwood Sandstone Group), The Park Tunnel, Nottingham. Back: (Top) The Ashover Grit (Namurian) forming Black Rocks and overlooking Dene Quarry cut into Monsal Dale Limestones (Dinantian), Derbyshire. (Bottom) Metamorphosed Precambrian volcanoclastics in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire.
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This publication includes the following -

Part 1: The Precambrian Geology and Geological History of the East Midlands
Excursion 1: The Late Precambrian Rocks of Bradgate Park, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.
Excursion 2: The Late Precambrian Rocks of North Charnwood.
Excursion 3: Precambrian Geology and Scenery of Northwest Charnwood.

Excursion 4: The Carboniferous Limestone around Wirksworth.
Excursion 5: Carboniferous Rocks and Mineralization of the Ashover Anticline.
Excursion 6: The Edale Shales and Ashover Grit of the Ecclesbourne Valley and Alport Hill.

Part 3: The Permian to Middle Jurassic Geological History of the East Midlands
Excursion 8: The Permo-Trias of North Nottinghamshire.
Excursion 9: The Permo-Triassic Rocks of Nottingham.
Excursion 10: Liassic of the Vale of Belvoir.
Excursion 11: Middle Jurassic of South Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.