Dob's Linn is a small steep valley in Dumfries and Galloway, just north of the A708 road between Moffat and Selkirk, in Scotland. It is part of the Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve which is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. According to tradition, Dob's Linn is named for a covenanter, Halbert Dobson, who took refuge there from Government troops during The Killing Time in the late 17th century.
Looking down Dob's Linn Gorge from the top
Folds in the Rock Strata high up in the Dob's Linn Gorge
Plan of the typical locality of Dobb's Linn (sic) (after Lapworth)
Climacograptus wilsoni graptolite fossils on black shale (26 x 25 millimetres) of middle Ordovician age (Soudleyan Stage, ~mid-Caradocian) from the main cliff at Dob's Linn (about 36.1-43.1 metres below the Ordovician-Silurian boundary GSSP
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period 485.4 Ma to the start of the Silurian Period 443.8 Ma.
External mold of Ordovician bivalve showing that the original aragonite shell dissolved on the sea floor, leaving a cemented mold for biological encrustation (Waynesville Formation of Franklin County, Indiana).
A diorama depicting Ordovician flora and fauna
Fossiliferous limestone slab from the Liberty Formation (Upper Ordovician) of Caesar Creek State Park near Waynesville, Ohio.
The trilobite Isotelus from Wisconsin
