Interaction of climate and tectonics upon alluvial architecture: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian sequences at the southern margin of the Pennine Basin, UK

Glover, B. W.; Powell, J. H.

doi:10.1016/0031-0182(95)00050-x

Cited by 27 publications

(18 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…E4 is of unknown duration because of the limited Lower Permian outcrop exposure in Nova Scotia and poor age constraints. Other examples of climate cyclicity from paleotropical records operating on similar time scales during this time interval have been documented by Glover andPowell (1996), Feldman et al (2005), and Montañez et al (2007).…”

Section: Time Scales Of Climate Variationsupporting

confidence: 61%

Fluvial response to paleo-equatorial climate fluctuations during the late Paleozoic ice age

Allen

Fielding

Gibling

et al. 2011

Geological Society of America Bulletin

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada preserves a 12-km-thick stratigraphic succession deposited within a low-latitude, predominantly continental setting during the late Paleozoic. This paper examines the utility of using such successions for paleoclimate analysis, with specifi c reference to changes in fl uvial style. Modern rivers in the subhumid and semiarid tropics preserve a suite of features that are distinct from those in humid and arid environments. These features include an abundance of sedimentary structures formed under Froude transcritical to supercritical fl ow conditions and the presence of in situ vegetation growing within the channel environment. This fl uvial style is indicative of prolonged low-fl ow conditions punctuated by intense precipitation events in a strongly seasonal climatic setting. Fluvial channel bodies within the Maritimes Basin preserve a remarkably similar style compared with these modern systems, suggesting that a subhumid, strongly seasonal paleoclimate was the dominant imprint on parts of the preserved successions.Strongly seasonal deposits are concentrated within four discrete stratigraphic intervals (E1-E4), ranging in duration from 2 to 6 m.y. These intervals are correlated across the entire basin and between basins characterized by markedly different tectonic regimes, which suggests that a coherent regional climate signal is recorded. Intervals are separated by deposits characteristic of humid and arid river systems, and the alternation between these different fl uvial styles implies that several pronounced, long-term changes in precipitation and runoff regimes occurred during the Carboniferous within the region. Furthermore, these intervals broadly coincide with major periods of Southern Hemisphere glaciation, which suggests that glaciation had a profound and controlling effect on paleotropical climate.

show abstract

Section: Time Scales Of Climate Variationsupporting

confidence: 61%

Fluvial response to paleo-equatorial climate fluctuations during the late Paleozoic ice age

Allen

Fielding

Gibling

et al. 2011

Geological Society of America Bulletin

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For example, the Clent Formation contains a distinctive suite of clasts derived largely from Uriconian (Precambrian) rocks of the Welsh Borderlands, and the Kenilworth Sandstone Formation is a distinctive unit formed from Precambrian and Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Lickey Ridge (Glover & Powell, 1996;Powell et al 2000).…”

Section: B English Midlands Southern England and South Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Warwickshire Group (Pennsylvanian) red-beds of the Canonbie Coalfield, England–Scotland border, and their regional palaeogeographical implications

2010

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Reaching a thickness of 100–247 m (Powell et al, 2000) in the West Midlands, the Enville Member has been proposed to be of Westphalian D to Stephanian age within regional European stratigraphy (Waters, Glover & Powell, 1994; Glover & Powell, 1996; Johnson, Glover & Turner, 1997; Besly & Cleal, 1997; Powell et al, 2000), which correlates to the late Moscovian to Kasimovian of the global Carboniferous stratigraphy (Gradstein, Ogg & Schmitz, 2012). The Enville Member is the upper of the two members of the Salop Formation, the other being the Alveley Member (formerly Keele Formation), the source of the Alveley track assemblage (Haubold & Sarjeant, 1973; Haubold & Sarjeant, 1974; Tucker & Smith, 2004).…”

Section: Geological Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Enville Member comprises interbedded red mudstones and red-brown fine–coarse grained, locally pebbly sandstones which are mostly sublitharenite (Waters, Glover & Powell, 1994; Glover & Powell, 1996; Johnson, Glover & Turner, 1997). Lenticular beds of conglomerate, the clasts of which consist mostly of Carboniferous limestone and chert, are also present.…”

Section: Geological Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lenticular beds of conglomerate, the clasts of which consist mostly of Carboniferous limestone and chert, are also present. The depositional environment of the Enville Member is considered to have been a well-drained fluvially dominated plain (Besly, 1988), being a slightly more arid environment with more sporadic fluvial deposition than in the underlying Alveley Member (Glover & Powell, 1996). …”

Section: Geological Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

A revision of tetrapod footprints from the late Carboniferous of the West Midlands, UK

Meade¹,

Jones²,

Butler³

2016

PeerJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A series of sandstone slabs from Hamstead, Birmingham (West Midlands, UK), preserve an assemblage of tetrapod trackways and individual tracks from the Enville Member of the Salop Formation (late Carboniferous: late Moscovian–Kasimovian). This material has received limited previous study, despite being one of the few British sites to preserve Carboniferous tetrapod footprints. Here, we restudy and revise the taxonomy of this material, and document it using 3D models produced using photogrammetry. The assemblage is dominated by large tracks assigned to Limnopus isp., which were made by early amphibians (temnospondyls). A number of similar but smaller tracks are assigned to Batrachichnus salamandroides (also made by temnospondyls). Dimetropus leisnerianus (made by early synapsids) and Dromopus lacertoides (made by lizard-like sauropsids such as araeoscelids) are also present. This ichnofauna contrasts with a slightly stratigraphically older, more extensive and better-studied assemblage from Alveley (Shropshire), which is dominated by small amphibians with relatively rare reptiliomorphs, but which lacks Dromopus tracks. The presence of Dromopus lacertoides at Hamstead is consistent with the trend towards increasing aridity through the late Carboniferous. It is possible that the assemblage is the stratigraphically oldest occurrence of this important amniote ichnotaxon.

show abstract

Interaction of climate and tectonics upon alluvial architecture: Late Carboniferous-Early Permian sequences at the southern margin of the Pennine Basin, UK

Cited by 27 publications

References 15 publications

Fluvial response to paleo-equatorial climate fluctuations during the late Paleozoic ice age

Fluvial response to paleo-equatorial climate fluctuations during the late Paleozoic ice age

Warwickshire Group (Pennsylvanian) red-beds of the Canonbie Coalfield, England–Scotland border, and their regional palaeogeographical implications

A revision of tetrapod footprints from the late Carboniferous of the West Midlands, UK

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About