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BERNICIA
, the See also:northern of the two See also:English kingdoms which were eventually See also:united in the See also:kingdom of See also:Northumbria
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Its territory is said to have stretched from the See also:Tyne northwards, ultimately reaching the Forth, while its western frontier was gradually extended at the expense of the Welsh
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The See also:chief royal See also:residence was See also:Bamburgh, and near it was the See also:island of Lindisfarne, afterwards the see of a See also:bishop
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The first See also: G . M . B.) BERNICIAN See also:SERIES, in See also:geology, a See also:term proposed by S . P . See also:Woodward in 1856 (See also:Manual of See also:Mollusca, p . 409) for the See also:lower portion of the Carboniferous See also:System,below the Millstone Grit . The name was suggested by that of the See also:ancient See also:province of Bernicia on the Anglo-Scottish borderland . It is practically See also:equivalent to the " Dinantien " of A. de See also:Lapparent and Munier-Chalmas (1893) . In 1875 G . See also:Tate's " Calcareous and Carbonaceous " See also:groups of the Carboniferous See also:Limestone series of See also:Northumberland were united by See also:Professor Lebour into a single series, to which he applied the name " Bernician "; but later he speaks of the whole of the Carboniferous rocks of Northumberland and its See also:borders as of the" Bernician type," which is the most satisfactory way in which the term may now be used (See also:Report of the Brit . Sub-See also:committee on See also:Classification and Nomenclature, 2nd ed., See also:Cambridge, 1888) . " Demetian " was the corresponding designation proposed by Woodward for the Upper Carboniferous rocks .
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