Abstract: ABSTRACTThe southern Bathgate Hills, in the eastern part of the Midland Valley basin of Scotland, were the site of a volcanic rise during late Dinantian to early Silesian times and a sequence of basaltic lavas and tuffs up to 600 m thick accumulated. The volcanic pile interrupted the regional sedimentary deposition, which involved a cyclical sequence of marine limestones and mudstones followed by estuarine, lagoonal and deltaic clastic deposits. During the Brigantian Stage of the Dinantian, freshwater terrestrial environments developed locally ...
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Geochemistry
Paleontology