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1:250 000 Geological Map
This range of geological maps show the general geology of the area, they come in either folded (for taking on the field), or flat (for wall mounting)
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1: 50 000 Geological Map
This range of geological maps show the localised geology, they come in either folded (for taking on the field), or flat (for wall mounting)
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Carboniferous
GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Gondwanaland joins the Northern land masses to form Pangaea, Warm climate cooled to an ice age in the Southern Hemisphere Marine limestone's overlaid with coal seams.
TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Age of Amphibians, first reptiles appear, snails Centipedes and millipedes cockroaches and giant dragonflies.
PLANT LIFE: Rich flora of giant tree-ferns, horsetails and conifers from the swampy coal forests.
SEA LIFE: Ammonites, Brachiopods in the seas. Rugose corals, graptolites trilobites and some forms of Bryozoans, crinoids and mollusc's disappear. |
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Geological Guide to Saltcoats
Carboniferous silts, shales and sandstones along the shore at Saltcoats
The Carboniferous Coal Measures at Saltcoats have been long studied in great detail. Although today, the exposures are not so good, their is still almost the full succession. The coal measures vary from thin sandstones with coal seams, to silts and shale's and limestone's.
The most prominent bed at Saltcoats is the 'Saltcoats Main Sill'. This is split into further beds, teschenite, picrite and banded teschenite. These beds can be found just south of the southern pool. Most of the fossils are found just north of this main sill.
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