Background and Aims. The largely Mississippian strata of the Kilpatrick Hills, located at the western end of the Scottish Midland Valley, enclose several macrofossil floras that together contain ca 21 organ-species of permineralised plants and ca 44 organ-species of compressed plants, here estimated to represent 25 whole-plant species (Glenarbuck = nine, Loch Humphrey Burn Lower = 11, Upper = s...

Abstract In this study, we investigate the age and geochemical variability of volcanic arc rocks found in Chinese, Kyrgyz, Tajik North Pamir Central Asia. New geochronological data together with compiled from literature give a holistic view an early to mid-Carboniferous intraoceanic preserved northeastern Pamir. This complex involves continental slivers its western reaches transforms into Cordi...

The Derbyshire Platform is a Mississippian aged flat-topped, steep sided platform that forms the westernmost expression of Derbyshire-East Midlands Platform. On south-east margin, 60 km2 Visean limestone has been dolomitised, forming two distinct bodies. One these bodies along major NW–SE trending basement fault and smaller, associated, N–S faults fractures. This study uses outcrop, petrographi...

Abstract Carboniferous rugose corals are useful for palaeoecological, palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographic studies. However, most analyses qualitative and/or comprise from long stratigraphical intervals, detailed studies in the western Palaeotethys scarce. This report presents a quantitative analysis of late Visean coral assemblages El Guadiato Area (Southwestern Spain), which has been thor...