XII.—The Hurlet Sequence in the East of Scotland and the Abden Fauna as an Index to the Position of the Hurlet Limestone

Peter Macnair

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XII.—The Hurlet Sequence in the East of Scotland and the Abden Fauna as an Index to the Position of the Hurlet Limestone

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In this communication an attempt is made to correlate the different members of the Lower Carboniferous Limestone Series of the East of Scotland with what has been chosen as the type section at Hurlet, near Paisley. For close on fifty years Scottish geologists have been endeavouring to correlate the Lower Carboniferous Limestones of Fife and the Lothians, and in general the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland, with the Hurlet Section, but up till the present time the various attempts have only met with a partial success, the reason for this being, that our knowledge of the Hurlet section has by no means been either sufficiently detailed or accurate enough to admit of comparison with other widely separated Scottish sections. The important question also arises as to what extent the Hurlet Section can be considered as typical of the group of deposits as a whole.

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Information: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 37 , 1918 , pp. 173 - 209

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0370164600023579 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 175 note *} Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland: Explanation of Sheet 32, Edinburghshire and Linlithgowshire.

^{page 175 note †} Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland: Explanation of Sheet 31 (1879), p. 20Google Scholar.

^{page 175 note ‡} Ibid., Explanation of Sheet 33, Haddingtonshire.

^{page 176 note *} Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland: Explanation of Sheet 22, Ayrshire, Northern District, and Parts of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire.

^{page 176 note †} Ibid., Explanation of Sheet 23, Lanarkshire, Central Districts.

^{page 176 note ‡} Ibid., Explanation of Sheet 31, Lanarkshire N., Stirlingshire S., Linlithgowshire W.

^{page 177 note *} Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Scotland, District Memoirs: The Geology of Central and Western Fife and Kinross.

^{page 177 note †} Ibid., The Geology of Eastern Fife.

^{page 177 note ‡} Ibid., The Geology of the Glasgow District, 1911.

^{page 178 note *} “On the Distribution of Posidonomya corrugata, Eth. j'un., in the Carboniferous Limestones of the Glasgow District,” by Macnair, P. and Conacher, H., Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xiv, p. 309, 1912.Google Scholar “The Stratigraphy of the Limestones lying immediately above the Calciferous Lavas in the Glasgow District,” by P. Mncnair and H. Conacher, ibid., vol. xv, p. 37, 1913. “The Hurlet Sequence in North Ayrshire,” by Peter Macnair, ibid., vol. xv, p. 200, 1914. “The Hurlet Sequence in North Lanarkshire,” by Peter Macnair, ibid, vol. xv, p. 387, 1916.

^{page 178 note †} “The Hurlet Sequence in North Ayrshire,” Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xvi, p. 200, 1914.

^{page 178 note ‡} Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Scotland: The Geology of the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh, p. 611.

^{page 179 note *} “The Limestones of Aberlady, Dunbar, and St Monans,” by Crampton, C. B., Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc., vol. viii, p. 374, 1905.CrossRef Google Scholar

^{page 180 note *} See Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xv, p. 206.

^{page 180 note †} Ibid., p. 207.

^{page 180 note ‡} Ibid., vol. xvi, p. 46.

^{page 182 note *} Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xv, p. 210.

^{page 183 note *} Tram. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xv, p. 215.

^{page 185 note *} Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xvi, p. 49.

^{page 189 note *} Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xv, p. 404.

^{page 189 note †} At Thorn, 1¼ miles north-east of Carluke, the second Calmy Limestone is underlain by a fossiliferous blaes containing a varied fauna, with numerous shells of Sanguinolites costellatile. This we regard as the equivalent of the Hurlet Alum Shale fauna.

^{page 198 note *} “The Limestones of Aberlady, Dunbar, and St Monans,” Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc., vol. viii, p. 374.

^{page 200 note *} This table has been copied from the Geological Survey Memoir on The Geology of East Lothian (1916), p. 137.

^{page 206 note *} “Correlation of the Carboniferous Rocks of England and Scotland,” Geol. May., p. 342, 1898; also Trans. Edin. Geol. Soc., vol. vii, p. 361, 1899.

^{page 207 note *} “The Lower Carboniferous Succession in the North-west of England,” Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. lxviii, p. 449.

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