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Map series Geological Survey of England and Wales 1:63,360/1:50,000 geological map series, New Series 
Sheet number 341 part of 342 
Sheet title West Fleet and Weymouth. 
Map type Drift 
Scale 1:50 000 
Publication year 1976 
Author statement Original geological survey, on the one-inch scale, by H.W. Bristow, published on Old Series Sheets 16 and 17 in 1850 and 1855. Resurveyed, on the six-inch scale, by C. Reid (Tertiary) and A. Strahan (Secondary) and published with Drift in 1895 and 1896 on the one-inch scale. Sir Arch. Geikie, D.Sc., Ll.D ., F.R.S., Director General. Sheet 341: Northern area revised by F.B.A. Welch and J.A. Robbie in 1936. C.N. Bromehead, District Geologist. Reprinted in 1959. Sir William J. Pugh, O.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., Director, Geological Survey. Reprinted with amendments in 1971. Sir Kingsley Dunham, D.Sc., F.R.S., Director, Institute of Geological Sciences. Sheet 342: NW area, Creechbarrow and notes revised by W.J. Arkell in 1937-8. Chaldon Purbeck inlier by A.H. Taitt in 1937 New edition published in 1949. W.F.P. MeLintock, D.Sc., Director, Geological Survey. Sheet 342 reconstituted from the one-inch scale without geological revision and reprinted on to the 7th Series one-inch base at 1:50 000 scale in 1974. Sheet 341 reconstituted from the one-inch scale without geological revision combined with Sheet 342 and reprinted on to 1st Series 1:50 000 base, 1976. 
Published statement Sheet 342 reconstituted from one-inch scale without geological revision and reprinted on to 7th Series one inch base at 1:50,000 scale in 1974. Sheet 341 reconstricted for one-inch scale without geological revision combined with sheet 342 and reprinted on on to 1st Series 1:50,000 base 1976. Print code: 6000/76. 
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