Unpublished paper, 'The Har Dalam [Għar Dalam] cavern, Malta and its fossiliferous contents' by John H Cooke and Arthur Smith Woodward

Description

Għar Dalam is situated in the eastern part of the island of Malta, near Marsa Scirocco [Marsaxlok] Bay. The headlands around the bay are composed of Lower Coralline Limestone, capped by Globigerina Limestone. Numerous valleys intersect the land at right angles to the coast line, forming small creeks and bays at their embouchure. The gorge in which the cavern is situated is a valley of erosion which carries off the drainage of the land above, and was no doubt excavated at a time when the rainfall of Malta was much greater than at the time of Cooke's observations.

Annotations in ink throughout. Includes a map and nine diagrams of trenches in the cave.

Subject: Geography / Geology / Palaeontology

Received 2 February 1893. Read 23 February 1893. Communicated by Henry Woodward.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 54 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The Har Dalam cavern, Malta, and its fossiliferous contents'.

Reference number

AP/69/6

Earliest possible date

1893

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

58 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram
Map