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Dumfriesshire; Sweden. A still lower part of the Llandeilo rocks consists of a black carbonaceous slate of great thickness, frequently containing sulphate of alumina, and sometimes, as in Dumfriesshire, beds of anthracite.
According to Professor Ramsay, their thickness is about 3300 feet in North Wales, including those of the Lower Llandeilo. The lavas are feldspathic, and of porphyritic structure, and, according to the same authority, of an aggregate thickness of 2500 feet. Arenicolites linearis, Hall. Arenig beds, Stiper-Stones. a. Didymograpsus geminus, Hisinger, sp.
BALA AND CARADOC BEDS, including volcanic rocks: 12,000. LLANDEILO FLAGS, including volcanic rocks: 4,500. ARENIG OR STIPER-STONES GROUP, including volcanic rocks: above 10,000.
The lowest rock with organic remains yet discovered is "the Ungulite or Obolus grit" of St. Petersburg, probably coeval with the Llandeilo flags of Wales. Shells of the lowest known Fossiliferous Beds in Russia. Siphonotreta unguiculata, Eichwald. From the Lowest Silurian Sandstone, "Obolus grits," of St. Petersburg. a. Outside of perforated valve. b.
Pilton : Upper devonian. Ilfracombe : Middle devonian. Linton : Lower devonian. Ludlow : Upper silurian. Wenlock : Middle silurian. Llandeilo : Lower silurian. Potsdam : Upper cambrian. Longmynd : Lower cambrian. Labrador : Upper laurentian. Ottawa : Lower laurentian.
It has been conjectured that this carbonaceous matter may be due in great measure to large quantities of imbedded animal remains, for the number of Graptolites included in these slates was certainly very great. In Great Britain eleven genera and about 40 species of Graptolites occur in the Llandeilo flags and underlying Arenig beds.
It was afterwards found that a large portion of the slaty rocks of North Wales, which had been considered as more ancient than the Llandeilo beds and Stiper-Stones before alluded to, were, in reality, not inferior in position to those Lower Silurian beds of Murchison, but merely extensive undulations of the same, bearing fossils identical in species, though these were generally rarer and less perfectly preserved, owing to the changes which the rocks had undergone from metamorphic action.
Beneath the black slates above described of the Llandeilo formation, Graptolites are still found in great variety and abundance, and the characteristic genera of shells and trilobites of the Lower Silurian rocks are still traceable downward, in Shropshire, Cumberland, and North and South Wales, through a vast depth of shaly beds, in some districts interstratified with trappean formations of contemporaneous origin; these consist of tuffs and lavas, the tuffs being formed of such materials as are ejected from craters and deposited immediately on the bed of the ocean, or washed into it from the land.
I subsequently composed an interlude called 'Pleasure and Care, and printed it; and after that I made an interlude called the 'Three Powerful Ones of the World: Poverty, Love, and Death." The poet's daughters were not successful in the tavern speculation at Llandeilo, and followed their father into North Wales.
When the term Silurian was given by Sir R. Murchison, in 1835, to the whole series, he considered the Stiper-Stones as the base of the Silurian system, but no fossil fauna had then been obtained, such as could alone enable the geologist to draw a line between this member of the series and the Llandeilo flags above, or a vast thickness of rock below, which was seen to form the Longmynd hills, and was called "unfossiliferous graywacke."
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