While digging the Somerset Coal Canal in southwest England, he found that fossils were always in the same order in the rock layers.
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For about four years from 1911 to 1915, Midford had a second railway station: Midford Halt railway station on the Limpley Stoke to Camerton railway that followed the former Somerset Coal Canal.