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XVII.—The Small Spore Floras of Coals in the Limestone Coal Group and Upper Limestone Group of the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Mavis A. Butterworth  and
Ralph W. Williams
Mavis A. Butterworth
Affiliation:
Scientific Department, National Coal Board, Chester and Sheffield Coal Survey Laboratories.
Ralph W. Williams
Affiliation:
Scientific Department, National Coal Board, Chester and Sheffield Coal Survey Laboratories.
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This paper provides a comprehensive account of the small spore assemblages of coals in the Limestone Coal Group and Upper Limestone Group (Namurian) of the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. The coals were obtained from boreholes sunk in the Lothians, Central, and West Fife coalfields. Over ninety species of small spores are figured. Of this number twenty-six are new species. Five new genera—Glomospora, Procoronaspora, Callisporites, Tholisporites and Remysporites—are described. Full descriptions are given of all new genera and species. The assemblages are compared with assemblages of similar age in North America, the U.S.S.R. and elsewhere, and it is shown that the Carboniferous pre-Westphalian microfloras were uniform over wide areas of the earth's surface.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , 1958 , pp. 353 - 392
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1958

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