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Westgarth Forster
Westgarth Forster (1772, Garrigill - 1835, Garrigill) was a geologist, mineralogist, and mining engineer.〔''Biographies of Geologists'' in George Willard White, Claude C. Albritton, (1978), ''Essays on history of geology'', page 289. Ayer Publishing〕 He was the son of a mining engineer, and was born in Garrigill, Cumbria.〔Robert T. Clough, (1980), ''The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales and Northern Pennines'', page 316〕 He became a mining agent on Alston Moor an area in the Pennines noted for its extensive lead mines,〔Christopher John Hunt, (1970), ''The lead miners of the Northern Pennines: in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries'', page 231〕 but died penniless in 1835.
==Author==
He is known principally as the author of a book called ''A Treatise on a Section of the Strata from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Mountain of Cross Fell in Cumberland''. The first edition (1809) is very rare; his work is known mainly from the second edition (1821).〔 A third edition was published in 1883, which was, however, much revised and modified by its editor, the Rev. W. Nall.〔(Book Review of Forster's ''Strata of the North of England'' ) in ''Nature ''30, 3-3 (1 May 1884)〕
The work describes the local strata in the north-east in its vertical sequence as discovered during mining operations. It also discusses the ways of prospecting for ore and developing mineral veins, especially the method of hushing from dams built high on the hillsides. There are numerous remains of such dams in many British ore-fields, especially in the northern Pennines. The method survives in modern gold-fields in Africa.
He was the first to recognise cyclic sedimentation in Carboniferous rocks, and he produced complex stratigraphic columns.〔
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