scholarly journals III. On Preglacial (?) Drift in Queen's County, Ireland

1865 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 442-443
Author(s):  
G. Henry Kinahan
Keyword(s):  
Outer Margin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Boulder Clay

‘The Coal-measure hills that form the outer margin of the Castlecomer table-land are generally covered with local drift; but the drift on nearly all the other Coal-measure hills is largely composed of limestone, even on the top of hills 700 feet high. What is most remarkable, however, is that in some places there are valleys and plains not more than 400 feet above the sea without a particle of limestone-drift on them, while hills in their vicinity are covered with it’.In sinking the various pits in the Queen's County Collieries, a Stratified Drift was found under some of this Boulder-clay. When the place was visited, none of these sections could be examined; but fortunately a record of each was kept in the ‘bore-books’ that are in the possession of the different agents and proprietors.

scholarly journals II.—On the Collocation of the Strata at Roswell Hole, near Ely

1868 ◽  
Vol 5 (50) ◽  
pp. 347-349
Author(s):  
Harry G. Seeley
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Boulder Clay ◽  
Geological Magazine

In the Geological Magazine, 1864, Vol. I. p. 150, and 1865, Vol. II. p. 529, two papers of mine appeared upon the strata at Ely. In them, as briefly as might be, are given the sequence of the beds from the Chalk to the Kimmeridge-clay, and the relations of these beds to the Boulder-clay and Kimmeridge-clay on the other side of the pit, where, on all hands, it is allowed to be in situ.

scholarly journals IV.—On the Formation of the “Rock-Basin” of Lough Corrib, County Galway

1866 ◽  
Vol 3 (29) ◽  
pp. 489-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Kinahan
Keyword(s):  
Metamorphic Rock ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Northern Portion ◽  
Boulder Clay

Lough Corrib is a long irregular lake of various widths, but having a general bearing of about N.W. and S.E. Its N.W. portion is in a granite and metamorphic rock country, while the rest of it overlies Carboniferous rocks, principally limestone. The northern portion is deep, the southern shallow, and through the whole of it are scattered numerous islands which, in the former part, are generally composed of Boulder-clay, while those in the latter portion are nearly always rock. Its known natural outlets are two, one being over the barrier of metamorphic rocks at Galway (U on Map, Pl. XIX), and the other subterranean passage south of Castlegar (T on Map, Pl. XIX). On all sides of the lake are rocks extending under it, or, to use Professor Ramsay's term, it lies in a “Rock-basin.” What excavated this Rock-basin? I propose in this paper to consider.

VI.—Notes on Two Arthropods from the Lancashire Coal-measures

1911 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 406-406
Author(s):  
J. Wilfrid Jackson
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
Gutta Percha ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Selection Of

Some time ago the Manchester Museum purchased a selection of Coal-measure Fishes from the executors of the late Mr. John Ward, of Longton, and included with these were gutta-percha casts of two species of Arthropods. These were mounted on wooden tablets covered with green paper, one specimen being labelled: “Limulus trilohitoides, Buck. (Bridgewater Treatise, vol. ii, pl. xlvi, fig. 3). Roof of the Upper Bent Mine, Middle Coal-measures, Hunt Lane, near Oldham. Original in the cabinet of E. W. Binny, Esq.” The other: “Limulus rotundatus, Prest. Coal-measures, Oldham.”

scholarly journals I.—Note on the Discovery of Bos Primigenius in the Lower Boulder-clay of Scotland

1868 ◽  
Vol 5 (51) ◽  
pp. 393-395
Author(s):  
James Geikie
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Imperfect State ◽  
Boulder Clay ◽  
Core Measures ◽  
Outer Curve

It Will interest some of your readers to hear that remains of Bos primigenius have recently been obtained from the true till or lower Boulder-clay of Scotland. The specimens hitherto found appear to have come either from the fine Glacial brick-clays, which are posterior in date to the larger portion of our Boulder-clay, or from deposits of still later age. A few days ago I heard that the navvies employed in making the new “Crofthead and Kilmarnock Extension Railway” had come upon what was described to me as a “wounderful big bull's head.” I lost no time in visiting the locality, and saw the fossil in the possession of Mr. John Strain, C.E., who allowed me to examine it, and was afterwards kind enough to accompany me to the railway cutting in order to point out the exact spot from which the relic was taken. The skull is in rather an imperfect state, and only one of the horn-cores remains, the other having been broken off near the base. The perfect core measures 31 inches in length along the outer curve, and gives at its base a circumferences of 14 inches. The breadth of the forehead between the horns is 10 inches. From the character of the flat forehead, from the origin of the cores, and from the direction and curvature of the remaining one, there can be no doubt that the skull is that of Bos primigenius.

I.—On the Sands and Gravels Intercalated in the Boulder-clay

1891 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 337-348
Author(s):  
G. W. Bulman
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheets ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cold Period ◽  
Glacial Geology ◽  
Boulder Clay ◽  
The One

The interpretation of the sands and gravels intercalated in the glacial drift is one of the most interesting problems in glacial geology. Do they, on the one hand, represent the deposits of one or more mild intervals alternating with periods of intense cold; or were they, on the other, laid down during one continuous cold period marked by such slight oscillations as can be shown to occur in connection with existing glaciers and ice-sheets?

Two new species of the genus Tanzanapseudes Băcescu, 1975 (Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha: Tanzanapseudidae) from mid-west Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2283 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA STĘPIEŃ ◽  
MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Outer Margin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Distal Process ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

Two new species of the apseudomorphan tanaidacean genus Tanzanapseudes are described from coral reefs of Western Australia. This genus belongs to the monogeneric family Tanzanapseudidae, which is recorded here for the first time from Australia. Tanzanapseudes nieli n. sp. differs from the other members of the genus by a specific pattern of minute spines and setae on pereonites, and by a combination of two other characters: a pleotelson distal process with a smooth outer margin and a short and spinose first article in the antennule. T. levis n. sp. has the anterolateral processes on its carapace and distal processes on its pleotelson uniquely smooth. A key for identification of Tanzanapseudes species and an amended diagnosis are given.

The Geology of the North Cork (Kanturk) Coalfield

1966 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 423-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Nevill
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Coal Measure ◽  
The South ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
The North ◽  
Coal Measures

AbstractBasal and perhaps higher Coal Measures are overthrust by earlier rocks at the front of the Hercynian arc of southern Ireland. The marine bands, lacking cephalopod phases, are faunally poor and in respect are unlike the marine bands of the other Coal Measure outliers of the South. The coal seams are crushed and in part pulverized and appear to have developed a “pinch and swell” structure.

The Gravels of Little Hayes, and the Age of the Crouch Valley, South-East Essex

1926 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 273-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
The South ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Small Patch ◽  
North West ◽  
Previous Note ◽  
Boulder Clay ◽  
The One

The rarity of drifts in the Crouch Valley has been often remarked. The only river gravel marked in it on the Geological Survey Map, sheet I N.E., is a small patch at Little Hayes, a couple of hundred yards north of the Crouch, and 1¼ miles S.S.W. from Woodham Ferrers railway station. In the Evolution of the Essex Rivers (1922, p. 47), an analysis of the five chief constituents, based on a collection made by Mr. H. J. Nicholson, recorded some Jurassic sandstones which I regarded as probably derived from the boulder clay on hills about three miles north and north-west. A visit to the pit last year in order to obtain larger specimens of the Jurassic material yielded various cherts; one is a typical Rhaxella chert, which has not been previously recorded so far to the south-east. A thin bedded oolitic chert, which was different to any that I knew, was submitted to Mr. H. C. Sargent with the inquiry whether it might be one of the Carboniferous cherts of the Midlands. Mr. Sargent identified some of the inclusions as silicified oolitic grains, and rejected the rock as Midland Carboniferous. The specimens and slides were also kindly examined by Professor Boswell, who showed them to Mr. E. T. Dumble for comparison with the Rhaxella chert found by him in the Crag; they also did not know any similar rock. The specimens were then sent to Dr. Morley Davies, who confirmed the identity of the one specimen with the ordinary Oxford-Buckingham Rhaxella chert, and has, in the previous note, described the other as a Rhaxella chert in which the spicules are the nuclei of oolitic grains.

IV.—Report on the Drift at Moel Tryfaen

1900 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Greenly
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rock Surface ◽  
Boulder Clay ◽  
High Level ◽  
Short Time

In August, 1898, it became known that what is perhaps the clearest and most instructive section in the famous high-level drift deposits at Moel Tryfaen must in a short time be swept away in the course of the quarrying operations. There are two slate quarries on Moel Tryfaen, the “Alexandra” and the “Moel Tryfaen” Quarries, excavated in the same line of strike of the slates. Gradually expanding, they had approached each other so nearly as to leave a narrow bank between them with no more than a yard or two of uncut turf upon it. Now the drift sections thus in danger of destruction are exceedingly important for the following reasons: (1) They are at right angles to the strike of the slates, and thus display the character of the underlying rock surface; (2) they show the nature and position of the junction of the shelly sands and gravels with the overlying Boulder-clay; (3) the false bedding and other structures in the sands and gravels are best seen along them; (4) they have been more accessible than the other sections in the quarries. A Committee was therefore appointed to preserve, by photography, supplemented by a written report, an impartial record of the phenomena displayed in these sections. The Committee have much pleasure in acknowledging their obligations to Mr. Menzies, the manager of the Alexandra Quarry, who, with a large-minded appreciation of scientific work for which geologists cannot be too grateful, offered to suspend operations in that part of the quarry for three months, besides showing the Committee every hospitality and facilitating their work by all means in his power.

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO THE SATURNIANS

1895 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 316-316
Author(s):  
A. Radcliffe Grote
Keyword(s):  
Outer Margin ◽  
The Other ◽  
South American ◽  
Supplementary Note ◽  
The South ◽  
Similar Variation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Distinct Genus ◽  
Asiatic Species

Since writing my paper (Can. Ent., 263, ante) I have been able to examine a specimen of the Asiatic A. selene. The moth differs from luna, chiefly in the pointed apices of fore wings, the outer margin sweeping inwardly in an even curve. I cannot consider this character of generic value, since precisely the same separates the South American Eacles magnifica from our E. imperialis. In the same species of certain Papilionides, a similar variation has been noted. The exterior bands appear faintly also in certain examples of luna, while the whiter colour is shown by the variety Rossi. Whether this tendency to white is reversionary in its nature, may be questioned. The tails are more developed in the Asiatic species, but (without denuding) I cannot find any neurational differences. I conclude, then, that Leach's term Actias is also applicable to A. luna. On the other hand, the European isabellœ seems to admit of a distinct genus.

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