XXXIII. Geological Observations in the Parish of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire

The slatyband ironstone, with its accompanying strata, is now the acknowledged base of the true coal measures, as given by Mr. Ralph Moore, Government inspector, in his chart of the probable position of the minerals in the various coalfields of Scotland, where he states that it lies between 400 and 500 fathoms above the Crossbasket ironstone series. As it has not, however, been found in any bore, pit, quarry, or ravine, in the district, we must look, I infer, for the position of the Kilbride strata in some lower horizon than that of the true Coal Measures, viz., in that of the lower coals and ironstones of the limestone series. From all my investigations, now continued over many years, I have come to the conclusion that our groups of stratified rocks obtain their greatest altitude at or near the pit known as Calderwood Colliery, on the estate of the same name, the coal there being, I believe, the equivalent of that now wrought at Crutherland, and formerly worked at Capelrig, Blacklaw, Murray, Whitehills, East Netherton, Torrance, Edge, Newhouse Mill, and Calderside. The seams at all these places are thin and of indifferent quality, but they may be said to map out the area of the East Kilbride coalfield, and to represent that of the Possil and Govan strata near Glasgow, and the coals and ironstones of the limestone series in the Carluke coalfield. To indicate the strata overlying this coalfield I cannot do better than refer to the journal of This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract