Provenance of Carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the Pennine Basin, UK: evidence from detrital zircon ages
New U-Pb isotopic analyses of detrital zircon grains from Namurian and Westphalian sandstones in the central and south parts of the Pennine Basin are combined with published analyses from the same region, to assess existing views on the nature and location of the source areas that supplied the clast...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5174702 2023-05-15T16:03:52+02:00 Provenance of Carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the Pennine Basin, UK: evidence from detrital zircon ages A.C. Morton J.I. Chisholm D. Frei 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5174702 https://geolsoc.figshare.com/collections/Provenance_of_Carboniferous_sandstones_in_the_central_and_southern_parts_of_the_Pennine_Basin_UK_evidence_from_detrital_zircon_ages/5174702 unknown Geological Society of London https://dx.doi.org/10.1144/pygs2020-010 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Geology FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Collection article 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5174702 https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2020-010 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z New U-Pb isotopic analyses of detrital zircon grains from Namurian and Westphalian sandstones in the central and south parts of the Pennine Basin are combined with published analyses from the same region, to assess existing views on the nature and location of the source areas that supplied the clastic sediment. The study confirms that most sandstones were derived from distant areas to the north, west and south, and that a local source, in the Wales-Brabant High, also supplied sediment at times. The northern sources are thought to lie mainly in Laurentia (East Greenland), with some input from Baltica (Norway). Most sandstones entering from the west are thought to have been supplied from areas of Avalonian basement, with some components recycled from sediments that were themselves derived from the Caledonian belt that lay to the north. An exception is the Clifton Rock: its source is thought to lie entirely in the Irish Caledonides or in southern Scotland. Sandstones supplied from the south contain significant numbers of late Devonian and Carboniferous grains, indicating the inclusion of material eroded from the active Variscan orogenic belt in Europe. Northern provenance prevailed during Namurian and early Langsettian times, then alternated with western supply until the late Langsettian. Western input then dominated through most of Duckmantian times, until superseded in the late Duckmantian by supply from the Variscan orogen. The Woolley Edge Rock, now shown to be an isolated member of the northern group, entered the area just before the earliest sandstone of Variscan origin. Article in Journal/Newspaper East Greenland Greenland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland Norway Brabant ENVELOPE(-103.751,-103.751,56.117,56.117) |
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New U-Pb isotopic analyses of detrital zircon grains from Namurian and Westphalian sandstones in the central and south parts of the Pennine Basin are combined with published analyses from the same region, to assess existing views on the nature and location of the source areas that supplied the clastic sediment. The study confirms that most sandstones were derived from distant areas to the north, west and south, and that a local source, in the Wales-Brabant High, also supplied sediment at times. The northern sources are thought to lie mainly in Laurentia (East Greenland), with some input from Baltica (Norway). Most sandstones entering from the west are thought to have been supplied from areas of Avalonian basement, with some components recycled from sediments that were themselves derived from the Caledonian belt that lay to the north. An exception is the Clifton Rock: its source is thought to lie entirely in the Irish Caledonides or in southern Scotland. Sandstones supplied from the south contain significant numbers of late Devonian and Carboniferous grains, indicating the inclusion of material eroded from the active Variscan orogenic belt in Europe. Northern provenance prevailed during Namurian and early Langsettian times, then alternated with western supply until the late Langsettian. Western input then dominated through most of Duckmantian times, until superseded in the late Duckmantian by supply from the Variscan orogen. The Woolley Edge Rock, now shown to be an isolated member of the northern group, entered the area just before the earliest sandstone of Variscan origin. |
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Provenance of Carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the Pennine Basin, UK: evidence from detrital zircon ages |
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Provenance of Carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the Pennine Basin, UK: evidence from detrital zircon ages |
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Provenance of Carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the Pennine Basin, UK: evidence from detrital zircon ages |
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Provenance of Carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the Pennine Basin, UK: evidence from detrital zircon ages |
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Provenance of Carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the Pennine Basin, UK: evidence from detrital zircon ages |
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provenance of carboniferous sandstones in the central and southern parts of the pennine basin, uk: evidence from detrital zircon ages |
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Geological Society of London |
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