Summary The district described consists of the south-west corner of a large mass of Lower Carboniferous rocks stretching from the Weaver Hills in the south to the River Hamps valley in the north. The Carboniferous Limestone makes a tilted plateau while the lower ground is occupied by Churnet Shales. The structure consists of a shallow anticline with numerous small folds super-imposed upon it. The Weaver Hills formed part of a basin lying to the south-west of the Derbyshire massif during Lower Carboniferous times. The limestones to limestones-with-shales. The succession is very similar to that of Dovedale, Derbyshire, described by D. Parkinson. Over much of the area beds of a general S age are missing, having been removed by denudation prior to the deposition of D 1 limestones which rest on rocks varying in age from C 2 to S 2 . Evidence of this and faunal evidence as to the age of each of the formations is discussed in detail.
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Albert Ludford (1950) studied this question.