New Miocene Faunas from Cyprus

1932 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 511-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Cowper Reed
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
The South ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
North West ◽  
Pillow Lavas ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Fossil Evidence ◽  
The Village

AN interesting collection of Tertiary fossils has recently been sent me for determination by Mr. C. P. Manglis, Manager of the Mitsero mines in Cyprus, who has collected them from the neighbourhood of these mines. Mitsero village stands near the head of a valley running down the north side of the Troodos mountains to the plains of Morphou and is described by Messrs. Cullis and Edge (1, p. 38) as standing on volcanic rocks close to the junction of the pillow-lavas with the overlying marls and limestones, while “ behind it is a bold sedimentary escarpment breached by the valley just mentioned and culminating in Koroni Mountain (2,140 feet), 1½ miles to the westnorth-west ”. The Koronia Limestone, the outcrop of which on the Evrykou road the author visited in 1929 (2, p. 443), occupies the top of the escarpment, as shown on a map sent to me by Mr. Manglis of the immediate district (scale, 1: 10,000) from the village of Kato Moni on the north-west to the village of Mitsero on the south-east. The position and age of the Koronia Limestone have been uncertain owing to the lack of definite fossil evidence, though the author (2a, p. 251) was inclined to put it in the Miocene rather than the Pliocene on the strength of a species of Cerithium which he discovered in it. The majority of the fossils in Mr. Manglis’s collection come from this limestone and provide ample evidence of its Miocene age.

scholarly journals Kos Astypalaia

1898 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Duncan Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
The Village

From the modern town of Kos, on the site of the ancient capital at the north-east extremity of the island, to the village of Kephalos at the southwest end is a ride of eight hours.The village stands on a chalky plateau which beyond the isthmus marks the beginning of the mountain district of south-west Kos. This in turn is a repetition on a smaller scale of the mountain region, at the other end of the island, which forms the lofty termination to the long central tableland. The highest points of the mountain district are towards the south-east where the fall to the sea is very rapid. The highest neighbouring peak, Mount Ziní, is about an hour distant from the village in a south-easterly direction, while all that lies to the north-west of the main range is high pastoral country with many torrent beds.

A Homestead Moat at Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire

1946 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Audrey Williams
Keyword(s):  
Outer Edge ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
The Village ◽  
Western Half

A small moated site in Scales Park near the village of Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire (fig. 1), has lately been examined by the Ancient Monuments Department of the Ministry of Works. It lies just within the Hertfordshire-Essex boundary, four miles north-east of Buntingford and eight miles north-west of Bishop's Stortford. On the O.S. 6-in. sheet (Herts. 9 NE.) it is marked as The Warren, but not as an antiquity; nor is it included among the 139 homestead moats recorded for the county by the Royal Commission.Scales Park comprises something over 400 acres of well-grown woodland on the plateau which forms the watershed of the rivers Stort and Quin, both flowing south to join eventually the Thames. Its height above sea-level is 450 ft. on the northwest, declining gently to 400 ft. on the east and south. Geologically the area consists of chalky clay over the chalk.The moat of the Warren, enclosing an approximately square island about a quarter of an acre in size, varied in width from 10 to 25 ft. and at the time of excavation was filled with black boggy silt. Round its outer edge ran a low much-spread bank, 20 to 30 ft. wide but not more than 2 ft. high. The enclosure presented a puzzling combination of mounds and hollows. A large mound, 9 ft. 6 in. high, on a raised platform occupied the north-eastern half. The south-western half had centrally a similar platform, 5 ft. above the surface of the moat, with flanking mounds, 6 and 7 ft. high, at the corners (pl. xxiv b). The cavities between the mounds were practically level with the moat; slight ridges barred the western hollow and the south end of the eastern hollow.

scholarly journals A Cave of the Nymphs on Mount Ossa

1909 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 243-247
Author(s):  
A.J.B. Wace ◽  
M.S. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
West Side ◽  
South Side ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Cone ◽  
The Village

On the north-west side of the great central cone of Mount Ossa a wide fissure runs right across the mountain from Mega Keserlì to Tságezi. On the south side of this fissure and at the base of the central cone lies the village of Spiliá, which is to be distinguished from another village of the same name near Laspochori at the eastern entrance to Tempe. To the north of the fissure rises a peak known as Pláka, which is the part of Ossa that directly overhangs Tempe. A little below the bare rocky summit of this peak, which rises to a height of at least 3,500 feet, and on its south side about an hour's walk from Spiliá, is a cave, which, though long known to the inhabitants of the district, has never before been visited by archaeologists.

scholarly journals XX. Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S.

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Lysons
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church ◽  
Common Field

The village of Bignor, in Sussex, is pleasantly situated on the north side of the South Downs, at the distance of about nine miles from the sea, six miles from Petworth, and about the same distance from Arundel. Within half a mile of the village runs a Roman road very distinctly marked, leading from Chichester by way of Pulborough (where it crosses the river Arun) to Dorking, and from thence to London. On this road there was great reason to expect some traces of a Roman station about Bignor, as Richard of Cirencester, in his fifteenth Iter, next after Regnum, proceeding eastward, introduces a station which he terms “Ad decimum,” not noticed in the Itinerary of Antonine; and Bignor is, by the Roman road, about ten miles disstant from Chichester, the Regnum of the Romans. No Roman remains had however been noticed near this place till the year 1811, when a mosaic pavement was discovered by the plough in the month of July, in a field called the Deny, about a quarter of a mile east of the church, part of a copyhold estate held under the Earl of Newburgh by Mr. George Tupper, a respectable farmer, by whom it is also occupied. The inhabitants of the village have a tradition, that Bignor formerly stood in this field, and the common field adjoining, on the east, called the Town-Field.

scholarly journals IX-XII. FOSSIL LOCALITIES, FAUNAL LISTS & INDEX OF BRACHIOPOD GENERA AND SPECIES

1962 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-256
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
Eastern Side ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
South West ◽  
North Bank

ExcerptFossil collections have been obtained from a large number of localities in the Girvan area. Most of them have been referred to in the text, but those described below are localities from which figured material and types have been obtained.(a) AUCHENSOUL LIMESTONE AND CONFINIS FLAGS(1) Red mudstones and limestone breccias exposed on the south bank of the River Stinchar, 100 yards east of the bridge leading to Auchensoul Farm, 1i88 miles out of Barr on the Pinmore road (Auchensoul Limestone and Mudstones, Auchensoul Bridge).(2) Brown- and yellow-weathering calcareous confinis siltstones exposed on the hillside, 100 yards west of Struit Well, 300 yards west-north-west of Kirkdominae ruins on the north side of the Stinchar Valley, 1i89 miles west of Barr (confinis Flags, Kirkdominae Hill).(3) Brown-weathering calcareous confinis siltstones exposed in the bank of the pathway leading from the old limekiln to the quarry excavated in Stinchar Limestone, 450 yards west-south-west of Minuntion Farm on the north side of the River Stinchar and about 1i89 miles north-east of Pinmore bridge (confinis Flags, Minuntion).(4) Yellow-weathering, pebbly siltstones and impure nodular limestones transitional from confinis Flags to Stinchar Limestone, exposed on the eastern side of the water-filled quarry 300 yards south-west of Bougang Farm, 3 miles east of Ballantrae on the ColmoneU road (top of the confinis Flags, Bougang).(b) STINCHAR LIMESTONES AND SUPERSTES MUDSTONES (1) Mudstones with nodular limestones exposed on the north bank of the Water of Gregg, half a mile east of its junction with the

Glacial and rocky-shore dynamics of the Karlebotn monadnocks: late Neoproterozoic of northern Norway

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 1215-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Levine ◽  
B Gudveig Baarli ◽  
Markes E Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Shore ◽  
Sandy Beach ◽  
Rocky Shores ◽  
The West ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Shallow Estuary ◽  
Late Neoproterozoic ◽  
The Village

Located near the village of Karlebotn in East Finnmark, Norway, a cluster of six gneissic monadnocks is unconformably surrounded by weakly metamorphosed sandstone strata of late Neoproterozoic age in the Smalfjord Formation. Differentiated by faults, the monadnocks were further sculpted by a glacier that flowed through a coastal valley concordant with the present-day Varangerfjorden. The largest of the monadnocks is 337 m long and 167 m wide. There remains ample evidence of glacial activity associated with this feature. Relict lodgement tillites are preserved on the west side of the monadnock, flowtillites on the steep surfaces of the north and southwest sides, and a small esker directly on top. The valley was later inundated due to glacial eustacy, and the Karlebotn monadnocks became an archipelago in a shallow estuary of a broad fjord. Interpretation of exposed versus sheltered rocky shores on opposite sides of the largest monadnock island is supported by mineralogical variations in basal strata along the unconformity and evidence of paleocurrents. Greater water energy was concentrated on the southeast side, where a small sandy beach developed. Water energy must have been minimal on the north side because of a general lack of reworking and winnowing of till when the rocky shore was inundated.

A Romano-British Pottery Kiln at Weston Favell, near Northampton

1954 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 218-224
Author(s):  
Brian Bunch ◽  
Philip Corder
Keyword(s):  
Raw Material ◽  
The South ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Education Committee ◽  
Cherry Orchard ◽  
Pottery Kiln ◽  
The Village

The village of Weston Favell is situated on high land to the north of the river Nene, some 2½ miles to the north-east of the centre of Northampton. On the north side of the Wellingborough Road at this point the Northampton Education Committee are erecting the Cherry Orchard School. In April 1953, during the filling in of a disused quarry preparatory to building, one of the writers noticed sherds of Roman pottery in a disturbed patch in the quarry face (Nat. Grid 5237.2819). Further examination disclosed two large burnt stones protruding from it, which proved on excavation to be the cheeks of the stokehole flue of a small pottery kiln.The quarry was some 16 to 18 ft. deep, and had been used to get the local limestone. The field to the south of it shows disturbance of the surface over a considerable area. Overlying the stone hereabouts is an extensive layer of grey clay, which may well have served as the raw material of the potters. It contains pockets of whitish sand similar to that which gives the clay of the local ware its characteristic texture.

The Rocks of the Lupata Gorge and the North Side of the Lower Zambezi

1929 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 241-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Dixey ◽  
W. Campbell Smith
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
The South ◽  
South Side ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Lower Series

The alkaline volcanic rocks of the Lupata Gorge were described in 1915 by E. O. Teale and R. C. Wilson, and in 1922 F. P. Mennell showed that at the entrance to the gorge these rocks were preceded by a sheet of columnar rhyolite intercalated between two series of sediments, for which he proposed the name of the Upper and Lower Lupata Sandstones respectively; the Lower series rested on Karroo basalts, and these upon Karroo sandstones. In 1923, E. O. Teale and W. Campbell Smith gave a detailed petro-graphical description of certain of the alkaline lavas and of the intrusive olivine-nephelinite (nepheline-basalt) of Sena Hill on the south side of the Zambezi.

Depositional Environment Drive as Overpressure Generation: Study Case in “Gap” Field, North West Java Basin

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A., C. Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Clay Mineral ◽  
Depositional Environment ◽  
Mineral Content ◽  
Hydrocarbon Generation ◽  
Well Test ◽  
Burial History ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Geological Processes

Overpressure existence represents a geological hazard; therefore, an accurate pore pressure prediction is critical for well planning and drilling procedures, etc. Overpressure is a geological phenomenon usually generated by two mechanisms, loading (disequilibrium compaction) and unloading mechanisms (diagenesis and hydrocarbon generation) and they are all geological processes. This research was conducted based on analytical and descriptive methods integrated with well data including wireline log, laboratory test and well test data. This research was conducted based on quantitative estimate of pore pressures using the Eaton Method. The stages are determining shale intervals with GR logs, calculating vertical stress/overburden stress values, determining normal compaction trends, making cross plots of sonic logs against density logs, calculating geothermal gradients, analyzing hydrocarbon maturity, and calculating sedimentation rates with burial history. The research conducted an analysis method on the distribution of clay mineral composition to determine depositional environment and its relationship to overpressure. The wells include GAP-01, GAP-02, GAP-03, and GAP-04 which has an overpressure zone range at depth 8501-10988 ft. The pressure value within the 4 wells has a range between 4358-7451 Psi. Overpressure mechanism in the GAP field is caused by non-loading mechanism (clay mineral diagenesis and hydrocarbon maturation). Overpressure distribution is controlled by its stratigraphy. Therefore, it is possible overpressure is spread quite broadly, especially in the low morphology of the “GAP” Field. This relates to the delta depositional environment with thick shale. Based on clay minerals distribution, the northern part (GAP 02 & 03) has more clay mineral content compared to the south and this can be interpreted increasingly towards sea (low energy regime) and facies turned into pro-delta. Overpressure might be found shallower in the north than the south due to higher clay mineral content present to the north.

A new volcanic province: evidence from glacial erratics in western North Greenland

2000 ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Dawes ◽  
Bjørn Thomassen ◽  
T.I. Hauge Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Common Component ◽  
Volcanic Province ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Surficial Deposits ◽  
North Greenland

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Dawes, P. R., Thomassen, B., & Andersson, T. H. (2000). A new volcanic province: evidence from glacial erratics in western North Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 186, 35-41. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v186.5213 _______________ Mapping and regional geological studies in northern Greenland were carried out during the project Kane Basin 1999 (see Dawes et al. 2000, this volume). During ore geological studies in Washington Land by one of us (B.T.), finds of erratics of banded iron formation (BIF) directed special attention to the till, glaciofluvial and fluvial sediments. This led to the discovery that in certain parts of Daugaard-Jensen Land and Washington Land volcanic rocks form a common component of the surficial deposits, with particularly colourful, red porphyries catching the eye. The presence of BIF is interesting but not altogether unexpected since BIF erratics have been reported from southern Hall Land just to the north-east (Kelly & Bennike 1992) and such rocks crop out in the Precambrian shield of North-West Greenland to the south (Fig. 1; Dawes 1991). On the other hand, the presence of volcanic erratics was unexpected and stimulated the work reported on here.

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