VII. Carboniferous Limestone Rocks of the Isle of Man

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Introduction. Many writers have taken notice of the Carboniferous Rocks in the South of Man, including Macculloch (Western Islands, 1819), but it is to Cumming (1846-1854) that we owe the first detailed description of these strata, with a pretty extensive list of fossils. The Survey Memoir of Man, published in 1903, goes pretty minutely into the subject of the Carboniferous Limestone, and contains an extensive bibliography, Surveyor Lamplugh having given full details of all the Manx rocks. My object in visiting the island was to collect a series of the Carboniferous Limestone fossils for comparison with those of the South and West of Scotland, to see if any relationship could be established between the two, and for this purpose I hammered at the limestone for ten weeks. Cumming's section of the Manx Carboniferous Limestone Rocks is as follows, reading downwards:— In the heart of the Poolvash Limestone there is a thin series of “Posidonian Schist,” as we shall see further on, and in the Volcanics a few bands of limestone, the complete section of the Manx Carboniferous Rocks being as follows:— Unconformity. Manx Slates—on edge. Port St. Mary. The Carboniferous Inlier here consists This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract