Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13860430604).jpg PROP C LAPWORTH OjST THE GIRVAIST SUCCESSION <br> 627 <br> however is visible ; and the quarry itself is filled with fragments of <br> the coarse gritstones collected from off the surface of the fields <br> About twenty yards further in the same direction however most <br> valuable testimony is afforded us by a few limited sections in a <br> small burn-course in a narrow strip of plantation Here occur <br> pale saudstones and calcareous flagstones weathering of the same <br> light yellow tint as the generality of the rocks of this subdivision <br> They split up under the hammer into angular fragments and <br> contain an abundance of casts of fossils They yield examples <br> of the characteristic Mulloch-Hill forms � Atrypa hemisphcerica <br> Sow Nidulites favus Salt Rhynchonella cuneata Dalm IUcenus <br> Thompson Salt � and in addition a host of new and very striking <br> forms unknown in the underlying series including Pentamerus lens <br> Pentamerus oblongus 'Atrypa imbricata Phacops StoJcesii Proetus <br> StoJcesii Encrinurus punctatus c <br> Of the strata which follow immediately upon these Pentamerus- <br> flagstones we know very little further from this locality An <br> exposure of a few of the beds of the same zone occurs in the same <br> plantation a few hundred yards to the northward ; and a limited <br> section of shales weathering to a purple colour in the ditches at the <br> edge of Glenshalloch Wood <br> iii The Graplolitic Shales of Glenshalloch <br> The yellow- weathering Pentamerus- conglomerates grits and flag- <br> stones of Newlands are succeeded to the eastward by a thick mass <br> of soft shales and flags of a dark greyish-green colour They <br> Fig 23 Section of the Pentamerus and Graptolitic Beds of <br> Baldrennan Burn <br> N W <br> JBa Ldren nacn J3u r/v <br> I nfCAUS JSeos <br> x Lower Carboniferous sandstones shales and limestone <br> Cb 2 Glenshalloch shales <br> b Grey and striped Graptolitic shales and mudstones with Bastrites <br> peregrinus Monograplus fimbriatus c <br> a Pale flagstones non-fossiliferous <br> Cb 1 Pentamerus-beds of Newlands <br> c Yellow-weathering calcareous flagstone with Pentamerus <br> Atrypa reticidaris Encrinurus punctatus <br> b Pale blue flagstone <br> a Coarse yellow conglomeratic gritstones <br> occupy all the remaining portion of the Lower Palaeozoic area and 36936456 113692 51125 Page 627 Text 38 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936456 1882 Geological Society of London NameFound Atrypa NameConfirmed Atrypa NameBankID 4083726 NameFound Atrypa imbricata NameConfirmed Atrypa imbricata NameFound Encrinurus punctatus NameConfirmed Encrinurus punctatus NameBankID 6114830 NameFound Nidulites favus NameFound Pentamerus NameConfirmed Pentamerus EOLID 3201214 NameBankID 4287886 NameFound Pentamerus oblongus NameConfirmed Pentamerus oblongus NameBankID 6590123 NameFound Phacops NameConfirmed Phacops EOLID 4322195 NameBankID 2875665 NameFound Proetus NameConfirmed Proetus EOLID 42558 NameBankID 2875647 NameFound Rhynchonella cuneata NameConfirmed Rhynchonella cuneata Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 38 1882 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36936456 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36936456 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-15 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13860430604 2015-08-26 07 50 51 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1882 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script |