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Description: | Airdrie, [Lanarkshire], [Scotland] "a few feet above the Black Band" [Coal], [Coal Measures], [Carboniferous (Upper)] Lovely rock - possibly the same bed as the "Cambuslang Marble". The specimen is in two parts, and these had been treated as separate specimens in the museum. One part has the adhering number "R3539", and this has a late C19th Hunterian label saying that it is specimen 5225 from the Lanfine collection, and giving the locality "Airdrie, lying a few feet above the black-band". The Lanfine catalogue gives similar information "Mussel Band Ironstone Aslop [sic] at Airdrie it lies a few fathoms above the Black Band". The other part has no number, but an adhering late C19th label giving the locality as "Cambuslang Pits". However the two specimens fit together, and were originally one. It is not clear which locality is correct- in view of the adhering number, it is perhaps more likely that the specimen is from Airdrie. In either case, the stratigraphy fits the Cambuslang Marble bed, which occurs a few metres above the "Black Band Coal" of the district. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SEDPETMUD : CARBONATE : ROCK : MINERAL : FOSSIL : MOLLBIVALVMISC : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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