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Carboniferous

GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Gondwanaland joins the Northern land masses to form Pangaea, Warm climate cooled to an ice age in the Southern Hemisphere Marine limestone's overlaid with coal seams.

TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Age of Amphibians, first reptiles appear, snails Centipedes and millipedes cockroaches and giant dragonflies.

PLANT LIFE: Rich flora of giant tree-ferns, horsetails and conifers from the swampy coal forests.

SEA LIFE: Ammonites, Brachiopods in the seas. Rugose corals, graptolites trilobites and some forms of Bryozoans, crinoids and mollusc's disappear.

 

 

Geological Guide to Seaton Sluice

The Carboniferous coal measures are full of plant remains
The Carboniferous coal measures are full of plant remains

The coal measures at Seaton Sluice are of Westphalian age, division D and part of the 'Newcastle Formation'. These are grey sandstones, siltstones and mudstones with minor reddened strata; coals few and thin with some thin limestones near base.


Westphalian
306 to 316MYA
Westphalian D
Westphalian D
 Newcastle Formation Seaton Sluice
Publow Formation
 
Radstock Formation

Radstock
Writhlington
Rickets Head Sandstone

Nolton Haven
Little Haven
Farrington & Barren Red Formations
 
Westphalian C
Bolsovian
Mangotsfield Formation
 
Downend Formation
Upper Similis-pulchra
Whitehaven Sandstone Series
Whitehaven Siltstones
Countess Sandstone
Aegiranum M.B.
 
Westphalian B
Duckmantian
Lower Similis-pulchra
    
Black Metal
 
Chemiss Coal
Pilkembare Coal
White Metal
 
Slaty
 
Ten Quarters
 
Bannock
 
Main
 
Westphalian A
Langsettian

Offerton
Newhay Quarry
Besom Hill
Joppa Shore



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