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Carboniferous

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Gondwanaland joins the Northern land masses to form Pangaea, Warm climate cooled to an ice age in the Southern Hemisphere Marine limestone's overlaid with coal seams.

TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Age of Amphibians, first reptiles appear, snails Centipedes and millipedes cockroaches and giant dragonflies.

PLANT LIFE: Rich flora of giant tree-ferns, horsetails and conifers from the swampy coal forests.

SEA LIFE: Ammonites, Brachiopods in the seas. Rugose corals, graptolites trilobites and some forms of Bryozoans, crinoids and mollusc's disappear.

 

Geological Guide to Annbank

 


Carboniferous pebbles along the banks of the burn

 

The Carboniferous Coal Measures at Annbank are between the Westphalian B - Ell Coal and the base of Barren Red Measures (Westphalian D). The plants are found just above the Barren Red Measures.

 

Westphalian
306 to 316MYA
Westphalian D
Westphalian D
 Newcastle Formation Seaton Sluice
Publow Formation
 
Radstock Formation

Writhlington
Rickets Head Sandstone

Nolton Haven
Little Haven
Farrington & Barren Red Formations
Westphalian C
Bolsovian
Mangotsfield Formation
 
Downend Formation
Upper Similis-pulchra
Whitehaven Sandstone Series
Whitehaven Siltstones
Countess Sandstone
Aegiranum M.B.
 
Westphalian B
Duckmantian
 Ayr Hard Coal Dalmellington Burns
Sillyhole Coal Dalmellington Burns
Sloanstone Coal Dalmellington Burns
Saltcoats Main Sill Saltcoats
Ayr Ell Coal Annbank
Lower Similis-pulchra
Black Metal
 
Chemiss Coal
Pilkembare Coal
White Metal
 
Slaty
 
Ten Quarters
 
Bannock
 
Main
 
Westphalian A
Langsettian

Offerton
Newhay Quarry
Besom Hill
Joppa Shore


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