Detailed stratigraphic sections recorded by the mining industry in Great Britain were first published during the 18 th century. In the northern Pennines, Forster presented the first representative long composite stratigraphic section in 1809. It encompassed the entire known Carboniferous (as it was later named) succession, with the portion representing the lead mining district summarising ‘ a sequence worked out during many centuries of lead mining .’ Three other shorter sections, also compiled from mining industry data and dating to between 1785 and 1800, had been published previously, with limited circulation. While the lateral continuity of the geology results in a broad similarity across all of the early sections, same-scale comparison combined with contemporary accounts constrains locations of the source data. A recent assertion that an unpublished composite section presented by Walton in 1793 to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-on-Tyne was the first ‘ stratigraphical section of the lead mining districts ’ with ‘ Hutchinson, Millar and then Forster later using his work without acknowledgement ’ is shown to be incorrect. The interest of Sir Joseph Banks in the emergence of stratigraphic geology in this period suggests that he may have been the enigmatic ‘A Constant Reader’ who corresponded on the topic of these early sections in the Philosophical Magazine. Forster's 1809 publication was the first concise synthesis of the Pennines Carboniferous, making ‘the miners’ succession’ more widely accessible and providing a basis for later work.

R.D.A. Smith

Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society

Early publications on the stratigraphy of the northern Pennines at the turn of the 19 <sup>th</sup> century and the first long stratigraphic sections

19世纪初北奔宁山脉地层学早期出版物与首条长地层剖面

Five Lower Albian (Lower Cretaceous) areoligeracean dinoflagellate cyst species are present in the Carstone Formation at Middlegate Quarry, North Lincolnshire, UK: Canninginopsis monile , Circulodinium deflandrei , Cyclonephelium compactum , Cyclonephelium intonsum and Cyclonephelium longispinatum . The taxonomy of Circulodinium deflandrei is reviewed with respect to 20 measured Carstone specimens. The taxonomy of Cyclonephelium longispinatum is reviewed with respect to 70 measured Carstone specimens and a study of 40 measured specimens from its type material in Site 361, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 40, offshore southwestern Africa. Circulodinium deflandrei and Cyclonephelium longispinatum have recently been considered by other workers to be junior synonyms, respectively, of Circulodinium hirtellum and Tenua anaphrissa . However, following detailed study of their morphologies, the synonymies are formally rejected here. An emended diagnosis is given for C. longispinatum . A re-assessment of the stratigraphical ranges of taxa co-occurring with the type material of C. longispinatum is consistent with a Late Albian to Early Turonian age range in Site 361.

Paul Dodsworth

Roderick D. Black

Two areoligeracean dinoflagellate cysts from the Carstone Formation (Lower Cretaceous) at Middlegate Quarry, North Lincolnshire, UK

英国林肯郡北米德尔盖特采石场卡尔斯通组（下白垩统）中的两个有孔虫类甲藻孢囊

Ankylosaurs are a characteristic group of dinosaurs recognized by their extensive coverings of dermal bony armour, known as osteoderms, across their bodies. The Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian–Oxfordian, Middle Jurassic) in the UK is important for understanding early ankylosaur evolution as it contains some of the earliest known ankylosaur material, including a cranial osteoderm from the basal-most ankylosaur Sarcolestes (and probable postcranial osteoderms). Here, we describe an isolated osteoderm from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough that exhibits a different morphology to other osteoderms from this formation. The specimen, although incomplete along its transverse axis, measures 52.7 mm by 41 mm. The osteoderm is subrectangular with a concave ventral surface and a low, rounded keel on its dorsal surface that protrudes beyond the posterior margin of the specimen base. This morphology is superficially more similar to the thoracic osteoderms of more derived Cretaceous ankylosaurs from North America (e.g. Borealopelta ), than to Sarcolestes and other Jurassic ankylosaurs (e.g. Dracopelta , Mymoorapelta , Tianchisaurus ), but could represent a currently unknown Sarcolestes morphology. Although its isolated nature prevents reliable identification of the taxon and the body part to which it belonged, the osteoderm nevertheless indicates a larger morphological diversity in the body armour of the earliest ankylosaurs than currently appreciated.

Jordan Bestwick

Stuart Pond

Chloe L. Oliver

Martin Nunn

Adam S. Smith

A new ankylosaurian osteoderm from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation, United Kingdom

英国中侏罗世牛津黏土组中新发现的一种甲龙类骨板

George Tate, draper, postmaster and insurance agent, was not only a renowned civic figure during the mid-nineteenth century in his home town of Alnwick but was also, despite limited schooling, a widely celebrated and influential writer on the geology, biology, archaeology and history of Northumberland and adjacent parts of Scotland. His principal geological interests were wide ranging but in the main were devoted to the stratigraphy and palaeontology of the lower part of the Carboniferous System in his local area. Some of the lithostratigraphical terminology he proposed remained in use into the 1950s and, despite changes in nomenclature, elements of his classification can still be recognized in the modern lithostratigraphy. He put forward much evidence for the intrusive origin of the Whin Sill when it was still regarded by many of his contemporaries as a lava flow. Tate was among the first to describe and discuss the evidence in Northumberland and SE Scotland for the then novel idea that Britain had been subjected to the influence of ice in the recent geological past. His brother and two of his sons attended Edinburgh University and had distinguished professional careers. His nephew, Ralph, inherited much of his uncle's wide interests and became a highly celebrated figure in the development of geology in Australia.

Douglas Holliday

Alison Tymon

Barry Tymon

George Tate (1805–71) of Alnwick, an amateur Victorian polymath, and his contribution to geology in Northumberland and SE Scotland

阿尔尼克的乔治·泰特（1805-1871）：一位维多利亚时代的业余博学者及其对诺森伯兰和苏格兰东南部地质学的贡献

Among the important geological attributes of the small Cumbraes Basin in the southwestern off-shore Midland Valley of Scotland, the 4 km-long, fragmented but well-exposed section through the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary sequence in southern Great Cumbrae island ranks highly. In a continuous short stretch of the south and west coasts, large portions of this sequence are superbly preserved in tide-washed strandline surfaces and in old post-glacial sea cliff. This enhanced exposure leaves no doubt that the outcrops belong to two, immediately successive, members of the Kinnesswood Formation – the lower the Doughend Sandstone, the upper the Foul Port Mudstone – and that they provide some of the best available exposures on which to base description and interpretation. The facies of the fluviatile Doughend Sandstone shares many characteristics with the underlying Kelly Burn Sandstone of the Upper Old Red Sandstone, whereas that of the Foul Port Mudstone is distinct and unusual, attributed to local tectonics, influenced by movements on older and more major fractures such as the Highland Boundary Fault, with sediment accumulation taking place in a playa-lake complex of considerable extent.

W. G. E. Caldwell

G. M. Young

Anomalous facies of the Kinnesswood Formation in the Cumbraes Basin: a late Famennian playa complex in SW Scotland

Cumbraes盆地Kinnesswood组中的异常相：苏格兰西南部晚法门阶干盐湖复合体

Foraminiferal diversity and taxa richness from beds transitional between the Asbian and Brigantian substages (Middle Mississippian) show patterns of secular change which allow detailed inter-regional correlations to be established. Foraminifera from the Askrigg Block, Stainmore Trough, Alston Block, South Cumbria Shelf and Solway Basin show similar secular changes (foraminiferal trends, FTs), allowing correlation to be made with the basal Brigantian Stratotype at Janny Wood. Despite the absence of consistent microfossil first occurrence markers for the recognition of the base of the Brigantian, this horizon can be confidently recognized by means of foraminiferal trends. The FTs allow the precise location of the base of the correlated Brigantian in sections where this boundary was questioned or controversial in previous studies, as well as to amend the position of the foraminiferal zones and subzones during the late Asbian and basal Brigantian. This type of analysis when used in combination with foraminiferal zonations, emergent surfaces and lithological cyclicity, together, provide a robust means for high-resolution correlation. This methodology, provides the least uncertainty in sections that have been most densely sampled, whereas for less intensely sampled sections there is more correlation uncertainty.

Pedro Cózar

Ismael Coronado

Ian D. Somerville

Mark W. Hounslow

High-resolution definition and correlation of the Asbian–Brigantian boundary in northern England and the Scottish borders, using foraminiferal diversity and richness

利用有孔虫多样性和丰富度在英格兰北部和苏格兰边境地区高分辨率定义和关联阿斯比安-布里甘提安界线

A new specimen of a rare large theropod dinosaur print of Middle Jurassic age is described from the Long Nab Member of the Scalby Formation, Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire. This is only the sixth specimen of this type recorded from the Cleveland Basin since they were first discovered in 1934. The present specimen is included in the same, but slightly modified morphotype Bxviii as some of the previous ones, since it shows additional features including an elongated metapodium. The specimen is assigned to the ichnogenus Megalosauripus , and was possibly made by a Megalosaurus -like theropod. The elongated metapodium may be the result of resting or crouching behaviour.

John G. Hudson

Mike Romano

Dean R. Lomax

Rob Taylor

Marie Woods

A new giant theropod dinosaur track from the Middle Jurassic of the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK

英国约克郡克利夫兰盆地中侏罗世新发现的大型兽脚类恐龙足迹

The early Marsdenian substage (Millstone Grit Group) of the Pennines comprises repeated deltaic cycles separated by ammonoid-bearing marine bands. This cyclicity, controlled by the combined forces of glacio-eustasy and modulations in sediment supply, provides an important outcrop area for the application of sequence stratigraphic principles. A new correlation framework is presented where two orders of sequence are identified: (1) a low-order sequence, within which marine bands (R 2a 1, R 2b 1, R 2b 2 and R 2b 3) represent a maximum flooding surface, and (2) high-order sequences nested within the low-order sequences. By integrating and correlating key exposures, historic well boreholes and field mapping, lateral changes in facies and facies association are observed, and palaeogeographic trends mapped. This allows the variation in sequence and systems tract stacking patterns to be interpreted. Three orders of Milankovitch cyclicity are inferred to control the sequence stacking patterns; long-duration ( c. 400 ka) eccentricity oscillation controlling maximum flooding events represented by the R 2a 1 and R 2b 2 marine bands, sub-100 ka obliquity oscillations (controlling the R 2b 1, R 2b 2 and R 2b 3 marine bands and intervening low-order sequence boundaries), and precessional frequencies ( c. 25 ka) which may control the periodicity of the high-order sequences. Supplementary material: Locality details, including lithostratigraphic units observed, gross and sand thicknesses within sequences, and palaeocurrent data measured are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6408203

Matthew J. Brettle

Colin N. Waters

Sarah J. Davies

An integrated sequence stratigraphic analysis of the early Marsdenian substage of the Millstone Grit Group, Central Pennines, UK

英国中央奔宁山脉米尔斯通砂岩群早马斯登亚阶的综合层序地层分析

This paper re-introduces a forgotten subject, cannel coal, formed within very low gradient mire drainage systems. A minute part of the British Carboniferous rock volume, cannel was prized in the early Industrial Revolution for oil and gas, notably hydrogen. In this paper it is revisited to reveal under-reported palaeogeography, using modern mining and drilling data to give regional depositional insights. The focus is on the English East Midlands, in the SE of the Pennine Basin. Early literature on other areas emphasized deposition in small lakes, assuming little connectivity. In the East Midlands, large lake deposits are connected by cannel-filled channels, from the basin's southern margins up to 100 km north into Yorkshire. Interplays with fluvio-clastic systems are spread over a subtle but simple palaeoslope, north and NE to the Gainsborough Trough sub-basin, with negligible structural disturbance during deposition of the Pennine Coal Measures Group. A gentle basement tilt is indicated. Mire drainage tangential to the central basin invites discussion on wider issues, including marine flooding into the basin. Mire longevity is discussed, this also being relevant to research on contaminant contents through coal-forming times.

J.H. Rippon

A.A. France

D.A.D. Rowland

Cannel coal systems and low gradient drainage through British Carboniferous mires: informing structural backgrounds, mire longevities, and Pennine Basin palaeoslopes

英国石炭纪泥炭地的烛煤系统与低坡度排水：揭示构造背景、泥炭地寿命及彭宁盆地古坡度

Here, we describe the upper Pliensbachian to middle Toarcian stratigraphy of the Dove's Nest borehole, which was drilled near Whitby, North Yorkshire, in 2013. The core represents a single, continuous vertical section through unweathered, immature Lower Jurassic sedimentary rocks. The thickness of the Lias Group formations in the Dove's Nest core is approximately the same as that exposed along the North Yorkshire coast between Hawsker Bottoms and Whitby. The studied succession consists of epeiric-neritic sediments and comprises cross-laminated very fine sandstones, (oolitic) ironstones, and argillaceous mudstones. Dark argillaceous mudstone is the dominant lithology. These sediments were deposited in the Cleveland Basin, a more subsident area of an epeiric sea, the Laurasian Sea. We present a set of geochemical data that includes organic carbon isotope ratios ( <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:math> 13 C org ) and total organic carbon (TOC). The <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:math> 13 C org record contains a negative excursion across the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and another in the lower Toarcian that corresponds to the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE). Below the T-OAE negative excursion, <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:math> 13 C org values are less 13 C-depleted than above it. We find no evidence of a long-term <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:math> 13 C org positive excursion. TOC values below the T-OAE negative excursion are lower than above it. Sedimentary evidence suggests that, during much of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian interval, the seafloor of the Cleveland Basin was above storm wave-base and that storm-driven bottom currents were responsible for much sediment erosion, transport, and redeposition during the interval of oceanic anoxia. The abrupt shifts observed in the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:math> 13 C org record (lower Toarcian) are likely to reflect the impact of erosion by storms on the morphology of the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:math> 13 C record of the T-OAE. Supplementary material: stratigraphic and geochemical data [organic carbon isotope ratios ( <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:math> 13 C org ) and total organic carbon (TOC)] are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6154436

João P. Trabucho-Alexandre

Darren R. Gröcke

Elizabeth Atar

Liam Herringshaw

Ian Jarvis

A new subsurface record of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian, Lower Jurassic, of Yorkshire

约克郡下侏罗统普林斯巴赫阶-托阿尔阶的新次表层记录

《约克郡地质学会会刊》（PYGS）自 1839 年以来一直不间断出版。它是英国地质学的主要期刊之一。每年都会发行两部分，其中包含有关地质各个方面的原始研究论文。传统上，会议记录特别关注英格兰北部及其邻近地区的地质情况。鼓励提交有关相关主题但具有更普遍兴趣的论文。所有论文都经过两名独立裁判的全面审查。

The Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (PYGS) has been published continuously since 1839 and is one of the leading journals in the field of geology in the UK. The journal releases two issues each year, featuring original research papers covering various aspects of geology. The conference proceedings particularly focus on the geological conditions of Northern England and its surrounding areas, while also encouraging submissions on related topics of broader interest. All submitted papers undergo thorough review by two independent referees.

《Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society》（PYGS）自1839年起持续出版，是英国地质学领域的重要期刊之一。该期刊每年发行两期，涵盖地质学各个方面的原创研究论文。会议记录部分特别关注英格兰北部及其邻近地区的地质情况，同时也鼓励提交与相关主题但具有更广泛兴趣的论文。所有提交的论文均经过两名独立审稿人的严格评审。

Journals	Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
ISSN	0044-0604, 2041-4811
h-index	24
Journal Impact	0.44
Quartiles(Global)	GEOLOGY(Q4)
Quartiles(China)	地球科学(4区)地球科学地质学(4区)