On fossil fishes of the
Old Red Sandstone of Caithness and Sutherland, with notices of some new to those counties.
Silurian and Devonian spore zones of the
Old Red Sandstone continent and adjacent regions.
Calcareous, alluvial and lacustrine deposits in the
Old Red Sandstone of central north Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation, Early Devonian).
Isopodichnus in a trace fossil assemblage from the
Old Red Sandstone. Lethaia, 9, 29-39.
On the occurrence of displacive calcite in Lower
Old Red Sandstone of Carnousite, eastern Scotland.
He said, 'The
Old Red Sandstone was well known for preserving the fossils of the fish, but the fish trails and their significance have never been recorded before.'
This will be particularly so when the top soil is composed largely of clay produced by the chemical weathering of the underlying rock strata which in large parts of South Wales is
Old Red Sandstone. But all is not lost.
This is the one hour of the year I can move around the promontory, down the
old red sandstone bulwark to the limestone karst, that landsker where geology's language changes, down to the crevices and gwlis and overhung beaches that are usually no-gos, exclusive as some Mediterranean enclave, whitewalled, camera-scanned.
Other herbs like purple saxifrage reach the southernmost edge of their range in Britain on Powys's
old red sandstone cliffs.
Much of the rural Welsh landscape is characterised by its traditional stone field boundaries, with
Old Red Sandstone walls in the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains, Carboniferous limestone and Millstone Grit in the Valleys and limestone and slate in West and North Wales.
'The
old red sandstone buildings of the Prya site, constructed 100 years ago with a craftsmanship which will last another 100 years, were formerly the site of a rural hospital.
As a member of the Grasshopper group of farmers, Stephen aims to exploit the quality of the
old red sandstone, lowland peat and alluvial silt and clay to achieve maximum returns from grassland forage and reduce production costs.