(5) On a Freshwater Limestone underlying a Marine Limestone, near Paisley

Abstract

This limestone occurs in an old quarry at Jenny's Well, near the White Cart Water, between Blackhall and the Cart Bridge. The section is as follows:— All these Ostracoda appear to belong mostly to the genus Carbonia. In Craigenglen, Campsie, there are thin bands of freshwater limestone, as was pointed out by the late Dr. John Young in his Campsie Monograph.† If the Paisley horizon is a continuation of the Craigenglen one, it will therefore be some distance below the Campsie Main Limestone series. Whatever position it occupies, the under limestone beds in it are, so far as I know, the only freshwater limestones south of the Clyde in the Carboniferous Limestone series. This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract