Inversion and exhumation of the St. George's Channel basin offshore Wales UK

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Williams, G., Turner, J., Holford, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Soc Publ House 2005
• Subjects: phosphates; Paleogene; Cenozoic; Tertiary; upper Tertiary; Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic; Europe; Western Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; heat flow; geothermal gradient; reflectance; vitrinite; fission tracks; apatite; thermal history; gravity anomalies; transtension; transpression; Eocene; Neogene; Upper Cretaceous; faults; reactivation; inversion tectonics; underplating; erosion; uplifts; vertical seismic profiles; free-air anomalies; exhumation; inverse problem; tectonic controls; seismic methods; Irish Sea; Wales; Bala
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/46941; https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764904-023

The western UK basins of the Irish Sea have provided one of the best natural laboratories for investigating the causes and consequences of intracratonic uplift and erosion (exhumation). To date, the emphasis has been on igneous underplating as the chief process driving their exhumation. In this pape...