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Plant Migration across the Millstone Grit.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. B. Bailey
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There is one marked difference in the descriptions of the Carboniferous floral succession that have been furnished by Kidston and Potonié. Kidston emphasizes the existence of an abrupt change of flora at some point within the British Millstone Grit; while Potonié claims that he can demonstrate floral continuity right across the corresponding position in Upper Silesia (U.S. of Fig. 1, p. 58). Recent work by Renier seems to show that Potonié's results apply also in Belgium.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , February 1926 , pp. 49 - 61
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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page 50 note 1 Watts', W. W. substitution of Yorkian in place of Kidston's Westphalian is strongly to be recommended: “Carboniferous Nomenclature,” Geol. Mag., Vol. LIX, 1922, p. 238; see also R. Crookall, “On the Fossil Flora of the Bristol and Somerset Coalfield,” Geol. Mag., Vol. LXII, 1925, p. 393.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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page 54 note 2 This unconformity brings Millstone Grit about a quarter way down the Upper Limestone Group which immediately underlies it (see Dinham, C. H. in “Econ. Geol. Central Coalfield Scot., Area IX”: Mem. Geol. Surv., 1921, p. 78, and pl. v). In Ayrshire, comparable phenomena have been met with (see G. V. Wilson in “Sum. Prog. Geol. Surv. for 1913”: Mem. Geol. Surv:, 1914, p 59). Outside of Scotland, unconformable relations have also been proved in South Wales (see O. T. Jones in “The Geology of the South Wales Coalfield, xi, Haverfordwest”: Mem. Geol. Surv., 1914, p. 151; also F. Dixon and T. F. Sibly, “The Carboniferous Limestone Series on the South-Eastem Margin of the South Wales Coalfield”: Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxxiii, 1918 for 1917, p. 157).Google Scholar

page 55 note 1 B. N. Peach has expressed very much the same idea when he wrote “As the rocks afford no sign of a physical break in the region under consideration, some great physical change must have taken place outside it to account for the almost complete replacement of the flora and fish fauna by others. Change of climate alone seems powerless to bring about so sudden a revulsion.” Proc. Roy. Phyn. Soc. Edin., vol. xix, 1916, p. 257.Google Scholar

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page 61 note 1 De Lapparent draws attention to a contested determination of Spirifer mosquensis from the east side of the Upper Silesian coalfield, west of Cracow—Géologie, 5th ed., p. 940.