Abstract
The first excursion of the season was made on Saturday, April 28, when a large number of the members, under the guidance of Mr. John Young, left town by the 1-50 p.m. train to Kirkintilloch for a visit to Corrieburn; on the Campsie Fells—a locality which, from the variety of geological phenomena exhibited in the sections of both its eastern and western burns, and its easy access to the members, is perhaps one of the finest for geological field-work in the immediate neighbourhood of Glasgow. It is situated on the hill-side, about a mile and a half to the north of the road leading to Kilsyth, and about two miles north-west from that town. An hour and a half’s pleasant walk from Kirkintilloch along the Inchbelly Road brought the party to the hill-side sections of Corrie. These consist in their lowest divisions of beds of trappean (volcanic) ash and greenstone, overlaid by strata of sandstone, limestone, shale, coal, and ironstone, and are well exposed in the sections of the west burn, and along the hill-side between the two burns, where the strata are tilted up at a high angle against the trap which forms the upper part of the hill. The geological position of the Corrie beds is in the lower division of the Carboniferous Limestone series, and the limestones and shales are characterised by an abundance of the peculiar marine organisms of that period—nearly a hundred species of these having already been collected and arranged in the cabinets of This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract
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