Author: James Armstrong

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781230186696

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...remains. Chapel, 2 miles S. of Carluke. Upper Limestone Series. Maggy ironstones, in open face high up the bank above Dud's Well. Chapel Farmhouse, Cliff to the east, on right bank of Fiddler's Burn, and shale on left bank of burn immediately below a ford, about 2J miles S. of Carluke. Lower Limestone Series. Good exposure of Lingula limestone. The shale immediately below the limestone contains Sphenopteris, Serpulites earbonarius, Dithyrocaris tenuiStriatus, 'Lingula squamijormis, and Posidonomya corrugata. The shale over the limestone contains the first three of these fossils, as well as C/ionetes Laguessiana, Aviculopecten, and Nucula gibbosa. Cleekhimin, 2J miles S.E. of Carluke. Lower Limestone Series. Quarry at Old Farmhouse. Main limestone with Brachiopoda and various species of Aviculopecten. Ceossford, 2 miles S. of Braidwood Station. Lower Limestone Series. Limestone and shale in quarry section. Corals, Crinoids, Brachiopoda, and other shells. Fiddler's Burn, opposite Headsmuir, 1J mile E.S.E. of Carluke. Shale of the main limestone exposed on left bank, containing Endothyra ammonoides, E. Bowmanni, E. globulus, E. radiata, Trochammina incerta, and Valvulina palceotrochus. Gare, 2 miles N.E. of Carluke. Upper Limestone Series. Old shale heaps at limestone quarry section. The shales of the Gare, of all the localities in the Upper Limestone, are the richest in fossil organisms, of which there are a large number of species in a state of fine preservation. The following may be regarded as the typical forms: --Sienopora tumida, Zaphrentis Phillipsi, Palceacis cyclosioma, Pisocrinus globularis, Poteriocrinas crassus, Serpulites membranaceus, Spirorbis caperatus, Leperditia OJceni, Grijfithides mesotuberculatus, Cerlopora, Dtastopora...