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The Carboniferous Southern Pennine Basin, UK

Southern, Sarah J.; Mountney, Nigel P.; Pringle, Jamie K.

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Sarah J. Southern

Nigel P. Mountney



Abstract

Many of the Carboniferous outcrops located in the Derbyshire region of the Peak District National Park, UK, have provided sites for both significant and pioneering research relating to the clastic sedimentology of marine palaeoenvironments, particularly so during the 1960s and 1970s when early models describing the sedimentary architecture of fluvio-deltaic, submarine slope and deep-marine submarine-fan sedimentation were first developed. The area was subject to hydrocarbon exploration from the 1920s to 1950s, which although unsuccessful in economic terms left a legacy of sub-surface data. Despite a long-history of sedimentological research, the deposits exposed at several classic localities in the Pennine Basin continue to broaden and challenge our current understanding of sedimentary processes to this day.

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Mar 18, 2014
Publication Date 2014-03
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Geology Today
Print ISSN 0266-6979
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 30
Issue 2
Pages 74 - 81 (8)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12044
Publisher URL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2451

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