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XII.—On Salpingostoma dasu: A New Carboniferous Seed from East Lothian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

W. T. Gordon
W. T. Gordon
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Professor of Geology, University of London, King's College.
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In a recent paper (Gordon, 1938) reasons were given for the belief that semi-arid conditions prevailed during Lower Carboniferous times in the neighbourhood of North Berwick, East Lothian. The evidence was opposed, in a measure, to that advanced by Mr George Barrow in the East Lothian Memoir (1910) to substantiate the same position. He had relied on the absence of fossils as part proof; but, in point of fact, fossil plants have been obtained in abundance from the actual bedded ashes of Oxroad Bay that he considered (a) to be unfossiliferous, and (b) to have been formed in a manner similar to beds on the Springbok Flats of the Transvaal. The plants that have now been obtained showed xerophytic features, and, consequently, a semi-arid climate was proved on positive evidence. Other positive evidence of a lithological character was also presented in confirmation (Gordon, 1938, pp. 352, 353).

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , 1942 , pp. 427 - 464
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1942

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