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II.—Carboniferous Zones Illustrated by Corals: an Exhibit at the Natural History Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. D. Lang
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In view of the attention lately devoted by geological workers to the British Lower Carboniferous rocks and their fossils, an exhibit has been arranged in the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum to illustrate the occurrence in the field of Corals in reference to the division of the Lower Carboniferous rocks into zones.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 9 , Issue 10 , October 1912 , pp. 435 - 437
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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page 435 note 1 Iconographie des Bry. Foss. de l'Argentine, pt. ii, p. 234.Google Scholar

page 435 note 2 Vaughan, , “Palæontological Sequence in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Bristol Area”: Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lxi, pp. 181–307, 1905.Google Scholar

page 435 note 13 Buekman, , “The Bajocian of the Sherborne District,” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlix, p. 481, 1893.Google Scholar For a further explanation of the term, see the lucid and amusing article by Buckman, , “The term Hemera,” Geol. Mag., Dec. IV, Vol. IX, pp. 554–7, 1902,Google Scholar followed by correspondence in Geol. Mag., Dec. IV, Vol. X, 1903.Google Scholar The zone also is discussed in these papers.

page 436 note 1 Professor Reynolds, S. H. kindly lent his negatives of the photographs published in Vaughan's, paper, “The Carboniferous Limestone Series (Avonian) of the Avon Gorge,” Proc. Brist. Nat. Soc., ser. IV, vol. i, pt. ii, pp. 74–168, 1906,Google Scholar from which the exhibited photographs were printed.

page 436 note 2 e.g. in North-West Ireland, see “The Lower Carboniferous Succession at Bundoran in South Donegal” in The Geology of Parts of North-Western Ireland, issued by the Geologists' Association for the 08 excursion, 1912, p. 9.Google Scholar

page 436 note 3 See Carruthers, “On Coral Zones in the Carboniferous Limestone”: Geol. Mag., Dec. V, Vol. VII, p. 172, 1910.Google Scholar

page 437 note 1 e.g. the ease recorded in “The Lower Carboniferous Succession at Bundoran in South Donegal” in The Geology of Parts of North- Western Ireland, issued by the Geologists' Association for the August excursion, 1912, p. 14.

page 437 note 2 Carruthers, “The Primary Septal Plan of the Eugosa,” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. VII, vol. xviii, pp. 356–63, 1906; “A Eevision of some Carboniferous Corals,” Geol. Mag., Dec. V, Vol. V, pp. 20, 63, and 158, 1908; “The Evolution of Zaphrentis delanouei in Lower Carboniferous Times,” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. Ixvi, pp. 523–38, 1910. Of other authors' publications, the most important is that by Salee, “Le Genre Caninia,” Memoire couronne' au Concours interuniversitaire des Sciences minerales de 1910, publie sous les auspices du Ministere des Sciences et des Arts, Bruxelles, 1910.