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The Cretaceous Shales of Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. T. Trechmann
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Beds of shale, sandstone and conglomerate containing Upper Cretaceous fossils occur at several places in Jamaica, and in every instance that I know of they are found to be more or less in close association with Rudist limestones. They generally occur below the limestones with Rudistae but in at least one locality, that at St. Ann's Great River, fossiliferous shales occur immediately above and also a considerable distance, 1,000 feet or so, below a bed of Rudist limestone.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , January 1927 , pp. 27 - 40
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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page 27 note 1 MrStockley, G. M., F.G.S., told me recently that he saw a fossiliferous shale bed about 300 feet below the top of Blue Mountain peak but the fossils he collected there were unfortunately lost.Google Scholar

page 27 note 2 Reports on the Geology of Jamaica, Mem. Geol. Survey, 1869, p. 78.Google Scholar

page 30 note 1 “Cretaceous Limestones of Jamaica,” Geol. Mag., Vol. LXI, No. 723, 09, 1924, p. 390.Google Scholar

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page 35 note 1 See Geol. Mag., Vol. XLI, 01, 1924, p. 18,Google Scholar where I described this shell and referred it doubtfully to the Richmond or Carbonaceous shale series. There is no doubt now that this bed is a Cretaceous Shale and that Raeta sp. found there is a Cretaceous fossil.