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A Submarine Outcrop of Lower Carboniferous Rocks off South-East Scotland

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EXAMINATION by divers of a submarine section off the coast of south-east Scotland in which are seen beds of the Scremerston Coal Group has filled in the only major gap in the exposed Lower Carboniferous succession in this area.

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  1. Institute of Geological Sciences, 19 Grange Terrace, Edinburgh

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  2. Department of Geology, Sunderland Technical College,

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EDEN, R., SMITH, T. A Submarine Outcrop of Lower Carboniferous Rocks off South-East Scotland. Nature 211, 1285–1286 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111285a0

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