Hartfell Score - an excursion
By A.W.A. Rushton. From Scottish Borders geology: an excursion guide edited by A.D. McAdam, E.N.K. Clarkson, P. Stone. Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press (for Edinburgh Geological Society), 1992.
O.S.1:50 000 sheets 78, Nithsdale & Lowther Hills
B.G.S. Scotland 1:50 000 sheet 16 (Moffat)
A visit to Hartfell Score involves 5 to 6 km of easy walking on the public footpath. Warm and waterproof clothing is desirable in view of the exposed nature of the terrain.
Hartfell Score is one of the largest exposures in the Moffat Shale of southern Scotland, and is the type area for Lapworth's Hartfell Shales division of the Moffat Shales. The exposure was described in some detail by Lapworth (1878, pp. 292-296)[1] and Peach & Horne (1899, pp. 134-137)Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag. No systematic account of the distribution of fossils there has been published, though preliminary results obtained by the Palaeontological Association in 1990.
References
- ↑ Lapworth, C. 1878. The Moffat Series. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 34, 240-346. Lapworth, C. and Wilson, J.1870. The Lower Silurian rocks in the neighbourhood of Galashiels. Trans. Edinb. Geol. Soc. 2, 46-48.
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