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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13935480461).jpg 334 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Mar 7 <br> dip were steady for the whole distance Possibly 900 feet would <br> not be far from the real thickness <br> Proceeding up the Cork and Midleton trough to the westward <br> the next most instructive section will be one drawn north and south <br> through Carrickshane near the town of Midleton to the Old Eed <br> Sandstone hills on the north <br> Fig 6 ” /Section across Bilberry Hill <br> B Eoxborough <br> House BUberry Hill <br> dl c <br> Length of Section 3 miles <br> d' Thick-bedded grey limestone with fossils <br> d Dark- grey slates with white and brown sand- <br> stones <br> c Old Eed Sandstone Eed slates with red and brown sandstones <br> The thickness of the slates here is not exactly determinable as <br> the exposures are few and scattered and one of them gives a dip of <br> 10° to the north indicating an anticlinal curve The quarries and <br> cuttings however which were opened at Bilberry Hill in the year <br> 1851 when the late Edward Forbes visited this locality with me <br> were crowded with the little eases of Crustacea which were then <br> called Cypris since Cypridina and are now known as Leperditia <br> Forbes was greatly struck with these Cypris-slates as we then <br> called them comparing them with those known on the continent as <br> Gypridina-schiefer <br> The width of the tract at Bilberry Hill in which grey and blue <br> slates and brownish and whitish sandstones are interposed between <br> the massive Carboniferous Limestones and the bright-red slates and <br> red and green sandstones of the Old Red Sandstone is about a mile <br> and a half but reference to our maps will show that there is a fault <br> as well as a curve in this tract A list of the fossils collected in the <br> Carboniferous Limestone near Midleton and those found in the grey <br> slates and grits of Bilberry Hill drawn up by Mr Baily will be <br> found in the Explanation to sheet 187 of the Irish maps The <br> limestone fossils include more than seventy species of Corals Shells <br> c such as are most abundant throughout the Carboniferous Lime- <br> stone of the British Islands The fossils from the slates are fewer <br> and I will therefore quote the list here ” Fenestella antiqua Orthis <br> Michelini Producta Martini Bhynchonella pleurodon Spirifera li- <br> neata S striata 8 VerneuiUii or disju7icta with the variety called <br> Mosquensis Aviculopecten nexilis Cypricardia Phillipsii Modiola <br> MacAdami Orthoceras undulatum Leperditia Cypridina suhrecta <br> The black slates and dark-grey grits strike steadily along the <br> south side of the Old Red Sandstone ridge from Bilberry Hill through <br> the city of Cork and on to Cookstown everywhere dipping south at 36164775 111477 51125 Page 334 Text v 22 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164775 1866 Geological Society of London NameFound Aviculopecten nexilis NameFound Bhynchonella pleurodon NameConfirmed Rhynchonella pleurodon Phillips NameFound Crustacea NameConfirmed Crustacea EOLID 2598871 NameBankID 2560151 NameFound Cypricardia NameConfirmed Cypricardia NameBankID 4134516 NameFound Cypridina NameConfirmed Cypridina EOLID 13200496 NameBankID 517064 NameFound Cypris NameConfirmed Cypris EOLID 14512 NameBankID 2698202 NameFound Fenestella antiqua NameConfirmed Fenestella antiqua NameFound Leperditia NameConfirmed Leperditia EOLID 13110263 NameBankID 4217023 NameFound Leperditia Cypridina NameConfirmed Leperditia Roualt 1851 NameBankID 4985748 NameFound Michelini NameFound Modiola NameConfirmed Modiola EOLID 71417 NameBankID 2647821 NameFound Mosquensis NameFound Orthis NameConfirmed Orthis EOLID 4333134 NameBankID 4270859 NameFound Orthoceras undulatum NameFound Producta NameConfirmed Producta NameBankID 4310923 NameFound Spirifera NameConfirmed Spirifera NameBankID 4349332 NameFound Spirifera striata NameConfirmed Spirifer striata Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 22 1866 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36164775 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164775 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13935480461 2015-08-26 06 51 34 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1866 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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