{"title":"The geological collection from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–04) in the Museo de La Plata, Argentina","authors":"S. Carrasquero","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-029","url":null,"abstract":"In December 1903, William Speirs Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, arrived in Buenos Aires and contacted Francisco Moreno, director of the Museo de La Plata to request his assistance. Bruce asked Moreno to be an intermediary with the Argentine government and to facilitate Bruce's wish for Argentina to take over the meteorological station that the Scottish expedition had established on Laurie Island (South Orkney Islands). Moreno was please to provide the necessary assistance and was instrumental in Bruce achieving his ambition. As a gesture of appreciation, before leaving Buenos Aires Bruce presented a small collection of Laurie Island rock specimens to Moreno as a donation to the Museo de La Plata. This donation initiated the museum's Antarctic collection.","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45748155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Volcaniclastic deposit (tonstein) in the Balcomie Beds, Lower Carboniferous, East Fife","authors":"R. Batchelor","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-019","url":null,"abstract":"A volcanogenic clay bed (tonstein) has been identified in the Balcomie Beds of the Inverclyde Group near Crail, East Fife. Its chemical composition suggests an undersaturated alkaline magma source. This horizon may be contemporaneous with the early Carboniferous Garleton Hills trachytic lavas of East Lothian (346 Ma). This would make it the earliest expression of Carboniferous volcanism preserved in Fife, and also the earliest occurrence of a tonstein in Fife.","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47282899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controls on subglacial bedrock erosion and morphology near Drumnadrochit, Scotland","authors":"M. Jonkman","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-010","url":null,"abstract":"Abrasion and plucking are important subglacial erosional processes that create different landforms. This study shows that properties of bedrock control subglacial erosion and bedrock morphology. Softer and less-jointed bedrock favours abrasion, while denser-jointed bedrock and harder bedrock do not. Field work for this study was carried out near Drumnadrochit in Inverness-shire, where the lithology, geology and morphology of rôches moutonnées and crag-and-tails were examined. In this area, the rôches moutonnées, which have an abraded stoss side, are only shaped out of a relatively soft, biotite-rich gneiss, with not much jointing. The crag-and-tails have more densely jointed stoss sides and are shaped out of serpentinite or a harder, more felsic gneiss. Foliation appears not to influence subglacial erosion, since the foliation in rôches moutonnées and crag-and-tails in the study area is similar. Thematic collection: This article is part of the Early Career Research collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/SJG-early-career-research","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46924536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New records of crinoids from Trearne Quarry SSSI (Mississippian, Lower Carboniferous), north Ayrshire","authors":"Gary Hoare, S. Donovan","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-012","url":null,"abstract":"The Mississippian succession of Ayrshire, SW Scotland, is rich in fossil crinoids, albeit mainly preserved as fragments. Trearne Quarry is exceptional in yielding moderately common crinoid cups and thecae from certain horizons. To the two nominal taxa that have been documented hitherto, we add a further seven, all cladids with one exception. These species all come from the Blackhall Limestone of the Lower Limestone Formation (Visean, Mississippian). Nominal crinoid species identified from Trearne Quarry include Cladida: Rhabdocrinus scotocarbonarius (Wright), Ureocrinus bockschii (Geinitz), Ureocrinus globulus (de Koninck), Tyrieocrinus laxus Wright, Fifeocrinus tielensis (Wright), Hydreionocrinus formosus Wright, Parazeacrinites konincki (Bather) and Phanocrinus ardrossensis (Wright); and Diplobathrida, Camerata: Cribanocrinus baccatus (Wright). Species have distributions limited to one or a few mudrock beds. Identifiable crinoids are uncommon in massive, coral-rich reefal facies.","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45477850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discussion on ‘Borehole temperature log from the Glasgow Geothermal Energy Research Field Site: a record of past changes to ground surface temperature caused by urban development’, Scottish Journal of Geology, 56, 134-152, https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2019-033","authors":"A. Monaghan, D. Manning, Z. Shipton","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-014","url":null,"abstract":"In their analysis of temperature data, Watson and Westaway (2020) make substantial use of initial open information provided by the UK Geoenergy Observatory: Glasgow Geothermal Energy Research Field Site. They also offer criticisms on site location, heat resource size, design and costs; however, these criticisms appear to be based on a misunder-standing of the purpose of the Glasgow Observatory. In order to mitigate misapprehensions for future Observatory users, we write in reply. The Glasgow Observatory has been developed as a multidisciplinary research facility; it is not a demonstrator of maximum mine water heat resource, which is by implication what Watson and Westaway (2020) would deem a success.","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49655534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kim J. Kean, D. Foffa, Michelaina Johnson, M. Young, Gert Greitens, S. Brusatte
{"title":"First and most northern occurrence of a thalattosuchian crocodylomorph from the Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland","authors":"Kim J. Kean, D. Foffa, Michelaina Johnson, M. Young, Gert Greitens, S. Brusatte","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-013","url":null,"abstract":"The Jurassic was a key interval for the evolution of dinosaurs, crocodylomorphs and many other vertebrate groups. In recent years, new vertebrate fossils have emerged from the Early–Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland; however, much more is known about Skye's dinosaur fauna than its crocodylomorphs. Here we report new crocodylomorph material collected from Jurassic marine deposits at Prince Charlie's Cave on the NE coast of Skye. The specimen is a small cobble containing postcranial elements from an individual that is considerably larger in size than previous crocodylomorphs described from Skye. Based on features of the vertebrae and osteoderms, the specimen is assigned to Thalattosuchia, an extinct clade of semi-aquatic/pelagic crocodylomorphs. Specifically, the sub-circular and bean-shaped pit ornamentation on the dorsal surface of the osteoderms in alternating rows suggests affinities with the semi-aquatic lineage Teleosauroidea. Although the ornamentation pattern on the osteoderms is most similar to Macrospondylus (‘Steneosaurus’) bollensis, we conservatively assign the specimen to Teleosauroidea indeterminate. Regardless of its precise affinities and fragmentary nature, the specimen is the first thalattosuchian discovered in Scotland and is the most northerly reported Jurassic thalattosuchian globally, adding to our understanding of the palaeobiogeography and evolution of this group. Thematic collection: This article is part of the Early Career Research collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/SJG-early-career-research","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48196087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discussion on ‘Robert Jameson's transition from Neptunism to Plutonism as reflected in his lectures at Edinburgh University, 1820–33’: Scottish Journal of Geology, 56, 85–99, https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2019-031","authors":"J. Gordon","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-022","url":null,"abstract":"In his illuminating review of the progress of Robert Jameson’s conversion from Neptunism (promoted by Abraham Werner) to Plutonism (developed from the ideas of James Hutton), Stone (2020) drew extensively on the extant lecture notes taken by some of Jameson’s students between about 1820 and 1833. Mention was made in passing of Jameson’s role as an early proponent of Scottish glaciation, but the secondary literature sources cited have their primary origin in the notes of another of Jameson’s students, James David Forbes (1809–68), which are now held in the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews Library but were not utilized by Stone. James Forbes – not to be confused with the eminent marine biologist, Edward Forbes (1815–54), who succeeded Jameson to the chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh in 1854 – was, in the words of his biographer, Frank Cunningham (1990), a ‘pioneer Scottish glaciologist’. Forbes attended Jameson’s lecture course in Natural History at the University of Edinburgh in session 1827–28 and repeated the class in 1828–29. Forbes’ notes provide a valuable complement to those cited by Stone. Cunningham (1990, p. 14) records that, on the basis of Forbes’ notes, Jameson ‘treated his students to a thoroughly Wernerian version of geology’. Forbes’ notes also provide additional constraint to the timing deduced by Stone for Jameson’s conversion; he was a thoroughly Wernerian Neptunist in 1828 but a convert to Plutonism by 1830. With regard to glaciation, Forbes records in his notes from Jameson’s lecture 12 on 27 November 1827:","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1144/sjg2020-022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49284027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Discussion on ‘Robert Jameson's transition from Neptunism to Plutonism as reflected in his lectures at Edinburgh University, 1820–33’: Scottish Journal of Geology, 56, 85–99, https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2019-031","authors":"P. Stone","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-021","url":null,"abstract":"I am pleased to learn that James Forbes’ notes from Jameson's lecture course survive at the University of St Andrews and thank John Gordon for bringing their existence to general notice. Cunningham (1990) provides a good summary and the timing of Forbes’ attendance is particularly useful. As a student in the 1827–28 session, …","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1144/sjg2020-021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44573554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two newly identified cheiracanthid acanthodians from the Mey Flagstone Formation (Givetian, Middle Devonian) of the Orcadian Basin, Scotland","authors":"M. Newman, J. D. Den Blaauwen, C. Burrow","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-009","url":null,"abstract":"Articulated cheiracanthid acanthodians are relatively rare above the Dickosteus thrieplandi biostratigraphic zone in the Orcadian Basin, with Cheiracanthus peachi den Blaauwen, Newman & Burrow the only species identified to date. Here we describe two other taxa Fallodentus davidsoni nov. gen. et sp. and Markacanthus costulatus Valiukevičius from the Mey Flagstone Formation. F. davidsoni occurs at the base of the formation, in the Osteolepis panderi biostratigraphic zone, and is readily identified by its robust fin spines which have a wide longitudinal ridge on each side below the groove separating the leading edge from the side of the spine. The taxon is most similar to Homalacanthus concinnus (Whiteaves) from the younger (Frasnian) Escuminac Formation in Quebec, Canada. The unique specimen of Markacanthus costulatus is from the top of the Mey Flagstone Formation. This taxon was previously only known from isolated scales from the upper Narva and Aruküla Regional Stages of the east Baltic region. The dorsoventral preservation of the head region in the F. davidsoni specimens reveals clearly the position of the ceratohyal cartilages in a cheiracanthid, as well as showing for the first time that there is a basihyal cartilage anterior to the ceratohyals.","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1144/sjg2020-009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44521157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new large embolomere from East Kirkton","authors":"J. Clack, T. Smithson","doi":"10.1144/sjg2020-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-008","url":null,"abstract":"The well-known late Mississippian/early Carboniferous locality of East Kirkton in Scotland has the earliest described fauna of terrestrial tetrapods. Seven species are now known, represented by articulated skeletons of moderate-sized animals with snout-vent length of up to 200 mm, and each is unique to East Kirkton. Here we describe the skull bones of a much larger tetrapod that closely resembles those of embolomeres from the Pennsylvanian. Although the new material is too incomplete to be named as a new species, it enhances the taxonomic diversity of the East Kirkton tetrapod fauna, predates the embolomeres from other sites in Scotland and extends the range of the group earlier into the Mississippian.","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1144/sjg2020-008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42864092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}