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Silurian fades beneath East Anglia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

N. H. Woodcock  and
T. C. Pharaoh
N. H. Woodcock
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, U.K.
T. C. Pharaoh
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, U.K.
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Abstract

Core material from proven or probable Silurian sedimentary rocks beneath East Anglia has been re-examined. Four recognizable facies probably represent an environmental transition from anoxic basin slope or outer shelf through oxygenated outer shelf to storm-dominated inner shelf. This transition could have occurred laterally, from east to west across the Anglian Basin, or in time, from Llandovery (early Silurian) up to Př (late Silurian). Partial biostratigraphical constraints allow either interpretation, but the regional setting favours a marked facies transition through time as the Anglian Basin shallowed prior to the Acadian Orogeny. Reddening of the Silurian is mostly secondary beneath the sub-Triassic unconformity.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 130 , Issue 5 , September 1993 , pp. 681 - 690
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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