scholarly journals IV.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland from Shales exposed on the Shore near Gullane, East Lothian

1908 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
Fish Remains

In the year 1903 Mr Macconochie made an interesting collection of fossil fish-remains from beds of Lower Carboniferous age exposed on the seashore near Gullane, in East Lothian, which were submitted to me for determination by the Director of the Geological Survey. Accordingly, I prepared a preliminary account of these remains, which was published in the Summary of Progress for the year above mentioned.

III.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale. Part I.—Ganoidei

1881 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

I am indebted to the kindness of Professor Ramsay, Director-General, and of Professor Geikie, Director of the Scottish Branch of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, for the privilege of examining and describing a remarkable collection of fossil fish-remains from the Lower Carboniferous rocks (Calciferous Sandstone Series) of Eskdale and Liddesdale. Most of the specimens were collected by Mr Arthur Macconochie, one of the collectors attached to the Scottish Geological Survey; and Mr Walter Park of Brooklyn Cottage, Langholm, has also willingly co-operated in the search, so far as the district of Eskdale is concerned. I have myself also had the pleasure of twice visiting Eskdale, along with Mr Macconochie and Mr B. N. Peach, and on these occasions I obtained a few specimens for my own collection.

VIII.—Note on a Species of Scymnus from the Upper Tertiary Formation of New Zealand

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Small Tooth ◽  
Royal Dublin Society ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

In a Memoir recently published “On the Fossil Fish Remains of the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary Formations of New Zealand” (Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. iv. ser. II. p. 11, pl. vi. fig. 22) there is described a small tooth as an immature example of Carcharodon angustidens, Ag. The specimen was included amongst a large number of others forwarded for examination by Sir James Hector, Director-General of the Geological Survey of New Zealand; it is a small tooth, exquisitely preserved, and does not exhibit any signs of abrasion by use, which led to its being provisionally considered as the tooth of a young shark, and its form and minutely serrated margin appeared to indicate that its relationship was with Carcharodon.

VI.—The Carboniferous Succession in the Forest of Dean Coalfield

1912 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 417-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Franklin Sibly
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Future Date

The following preliminary account is presented as the result of several weeks of field-work on the northern and eastern margins of the Forest of Dean Coalfield, carried out partly in 1910 and partly in the present year. The area which I have examined lies almost wholly within Sheet 43 S.E. of the 1 inch Geological Survey Map (Old Series), but extends a short distance into Sheet 43 S.W. In portions of this area, the Lower Carboniferous rocks have been studied in detail and mapped. The Coal Measures, however, have as yet been examined only in their relation to the Lower Carboniferous strata. The present communication is, therefore, confined to a demonstration of the important unconformity which exists between the Coal Measures and the Lower Carboniferous rocks, together with a brief description of the latter. I am continuing my investigations, and I hope to give at some future date a more comprehensive account of the geology of the coalfield. In the meantime, the following outline may be of interest.

scholarly journals XXXII.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland

1900 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The South ◽  
Additional Work ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

In the autumn of last year (1897), Sir A. Geikie, F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey, kindly placed in my hands for description an important collection of fossil fish-remains from the Silurian rocks of the Lesmahagow district, which had been made by Messrs Macconochie and Tait, collectors to the Survey. I accordingly prepared a brief report on these fishes, which was included by the Director-General in hisSummary of Progressfor that year.The collection was, however, considerably increased by additional work on the part of Mr Tait in the spring of the present year (1898). Many better and more complete specimens were procured, and I was able to define one new genus and species, which had previously been represented only by undeterminable fragments. The results gained by the examination of the entire collection I now propose, with Sir Archibald Geikie's sanction, to lay before this Society in detailed form.

IV.—Carboniferous Fish-Remains in North Derbyshire

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wilfrid Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Large Collection ◽  
Limestone Quarry ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
Fish Teeth ◽  
Flowing Well

Some time ago Mr. R. Cairns, of Ashton-under-Lyne, sent me for identification a large collection of fossil fish-teeth, which he had obtained in a limestone quarry near Sparrowpit, in North Derbyshire, not far from the celebrated “ebbing and flowing well.”

On Composite Lava Flows.

1931 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Q. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Lava Flow ◽  
Lava Flows ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fluid State ◽  
Mutual Contact ◽  
The World ◽  
Probable Effect

For many years composite minor intrusions, both sills and dykes, have been known from various parts of the world and most petrologists must have speculated as to the probable effect produced in the event of such composite intrusions having reached the surface in the form of an effusion. For obvious reasons it has not been found possible to trace a composite dyke upwards into a lava flow. However, during the revision of 1 inch Sheet 30 (Renfrewshire) for the Geological Survey, the author encountered, in the neighbourhood of Inverkip, a small village on the Firth of Clyde south of Greenock, certain peculiar lava flows which are believed to represent the effusive equivalents of composite minor intrusions. These “composite lavas”, which form the main subject of the present paper, are of Lower Carboniferous age (Calciferous Sandstone Series) and occur interbedded among the more normal flows towards the base of the volcanic group. Two distinct rock varieties, one highly porphyritic, with large phenocrysts (up to 1·5 cms. long) of basic plagioclase, and the other non-porphyritic, are associated within the same flow. The porphyritic type always forms the upper part of the flow and overlies the non-porphyritic; the junction shows unmistakable evidence that both were in a fluid state along their mutual contact at the time of emplacement.

XXI.—Further Researches among the Crustacea and Arachnida of the Carboniferous Rocks of the Scottish Border

1882 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Peach
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fresh Material

I have again been privileged by Professor A. Geikie, Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, in being allowed to bring before this Society the results of a further study of the Crustacea and Arachnida obtained by the Geological Survey from the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the Scottish Border. Since my former papers on those subjects were read, a considerable amount of fresh material has come to light, which has allowed of many species, which were formerly represented by fragmentary specimens, to be more fully described, and several altogether new to science to be added to our former list.

Devonian miospores from Papa Stour, Shetland

1988 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. A. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Close Similarity ◽  
Plate Tectonic ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
Good Preservation ◽  
Sedimentary Deposits ◽  
Volcanic Sequence ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
Orcadian Basin ◽  
Age Range

ABSTRACTDevonian miospores have been discovered in the previously poorly dated Old Red Sandstone volcanic sequence of Papa Stour. They occur at two sites in minor sedimentary deposits between the lavas, and fossil fish remains are also present. The age range of the miospores is mid Eifelian to early Givetian, probably more specifically late Eifelian and from a position close to the Achanarras horizon. This allows a correlation of the Papa Stour volcanic sequence with that of the Upper Stromness Flags of Orkney and not the tuffaceous horizons in the Eday Sandstones. The good preservation and composition of the miospores indicate a close similarity to other Orcadian Basin sediments and support the view that the Old Red Sandstone sequences W of the Melby Fault have affinities with the Orkney and Caithness successions rather than with Shetland. The age of the volcanic sequence also provides a valuable datum point for plate tectonic models based on the geochemistry of Old Red Sandstone lavas.

scholarly journals XXVIII.—On the Distribution of Fossil Fish-remains in the Carboniferous Rocks of the Edinburgh District

1905 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
The City

The district in which the city of Edinburgh is situated was one of the first in Britain from which fish-remains of Carboniferous age were collected. It is now sixty-seven years ago since Agassiz described the fossil fishes which were discovered by Lord Greenock at Wardie. Dr Hibbert at Burdiehouse, and Professor Jameson at Burntisland. The list given from this region in the “Tableau Générale” at the beginning of the Poissons Fossiles comprises twenty-nine names, of which eight were nomina nuda and are not now verifiable, the original specimens being lost; one, Diplodus minutus, was described, but insufficiently, and the original is also lost; six are synonyms of others in the list; leaving fourteen good species, of which one, Ptychacanthus sublævis, is a synonym of a Selachian spine (Tristychius arcuatus), described and figured from the Glasgow district.

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