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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12471065045).jpg 1865 <br> JAMIESON LAST CHANGES IN SCOTLAND <br> 185 <br> the skeleton of a whale was got at Blair Drummond I have also <br> seen a stratum of peat containing remains of trees below the raised <br> estuarine mud of the Ythan in Aberdeenshire the clay above it con- <br> taining remains of Scrobicidaria piperata and other estnarine shells <br> This was exposed in cutting a deep drain near the village of New- <br> burgh ; there was a thickness of 8 feet of clay and silt above the <br> peat in some places see fig 10 <br> Fig 8 ” Section near Aherneiliy <br> - <br> Eiver Earn <br> ' ° i- 4 sj inTmiTrirrmMillllllliiiiiliiiiiiil <br> 1 Boulder-earth 2 Bed of peat with remains of trees <br> 3 Carse or old estuarine mud of the Tay <br> Fig 9 ” Diagram showing the relations of the superficial Deposits <br> at Blair Drummond in the Yalley of the Forth <br> 1 Sandstone-rock <br> 2 Glacial beds <br> 3 Peat with remains of trees <br> 4 Oarse-clay with bones of the Whale <br> 5 Peat with roots of oak-trees at the bot- <br> tom and remains of an old wooden <br> road <br> I by no means deny the existence of drift-peat for I am well <br> aware that rivers flowing through mosses often float away great <br> lumps of peat as I have myself seen but this need not blind us to <br> the fact that there are also tracts of submerged peat with remains <br> of forest-trees that have not been drifted but lie where they grew <br> I believe therefore that this extensive bed beneath the Carse of <br> Tay together with the others I have mentioned represents a land- <br> surface of the period preceding the deposition of the old estuarine <br> mud and that it is not a mere local phsenomenon but mU be found <br> in the same geological position along many other parts of the coast <br> The submarine forest on the coast of Lincolnshire explored by Sir <br> Joseph Banks and Dr Correa de Serra appears to belong to the <br> same period for in some places there is said to be sixteen feet of 34891855 108495 51125 Page 185 Text v 21 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/34891855 1865 Geological Society of London NameFound Correa NameConfirmed Correa EOLID 5309223 NameBankID 1838894 NameFound Scrobicidaria piperata NameConfirmed Scrobicularia piperata NameBankID 6690188 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 21 1865 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 34891855 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/34891855 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-12 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12471065045 2015-08-27 10 00 50 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1865 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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