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By this time the old Caledonian mountains were much reduced by erosion and the essential feature of the Lower Carboniferous, which corresponds broadly to the rock-group called the ‘Carboniferous Limestone’, is the gradual advance, or transgression, of the sea over the lower areas.
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Middlemiss, F.A. (1974). The Lower Carboniferous Marine Transgression. In: British Stratigraphy. Introducing Geology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6834-2_6
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