274 C. A. SUSSMILCH AND T. W. E. DAVID. 



(a) They immediately overlie the Kuttung Rhacopteris 

 bearing beds without any angular unconformity, (b) like 

 the Kuttung series they were deposited under terrestrial 

 conditions, (c) some few fragmentary fossil plant remains 

 have been found in the varve shales, but too poorly pre- 

 served for accurate determination, but such as they are 

 they resemble the fossil plants of the Kuttung Series in 

 their method of preservation, and include what appears to 

 be an undoubted pinnule of Aneimites inequilatera, (d) the 

 lithological characters of some of the beds resemble those 

 of the underlying Rhacopteris Series and are quite unlike 

 anything in the succeeding Permo-Oarboniferous strata, (e) 

 the climatic and geographical conditions under which they 

 must have been deposited would appear to have been the 

 culminating result of the pronounced crustal uplift which 

 must have been going on throughout the Middle and Upper 

 Carboniferous Epochs in this region, whereas the conditions 

 of the succeeding Permo-Oarboniferous were those of a 

 long continued and widespread subsidence. 



Since the above was written Mr. W. R. Browne, B.Sc. and 

 Prof. T. W. E. David have examined a section of the glacial 

 beds at Winder's Hill near Lochinvar in which they have 

 found undoubted specimens of Rhacopteris (Aneimites) 

 inequilatera occurring in shale beds interstratified with 

 glacial beds. They have measured the following section : — 



Feet. 

 Tillites and Conglomerate with reddish-brown shales... 300 

 Coarse Conglomerates ... ... ... ... ... 140 



Reddish Rhyolite Tuff Breccia 50 



Tuffs and Tuffaceous Sandstones with fossil plant stems 20 



Reddish Varve Shales with local contortions 70 



Red and Grey Tuffs, Conglomerates, Sandstones, Shales 270 

 Cherty Shales with Rhacopteris and Calami tes 10-20 



Grey Rhyolite Tuff with occasional thin bands with 



Calamites 490 



Puvio-Glacial Conglomerates 180 



