Storm-deposited sandstones (tempestites) and related ichnofossils of the Late Ordovician Georgian Bay Formation, southern Ontario, Canada: Discussion
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Trent, England, and was a true son of the district known as the Potteries, made internationally famous by the ceramics industry (Royal Doulton, Wedgwood), by the novels of Arnold Bennett and by the skills of its greatest footballing progeny, Sir Stanley Matthews. Ron was himself a considerable football (soccer) talent, cricketer (England Schoolboys) and accomplished rock-band drummer. In his late teens, he was torn between 'signing forms' with his beloved Stoke City F.C., signing a record deal with EMI (the 'Beatles' label) or going to university. It was his mother's wise head who argued convincingly that he should take the academic path. Ron's choice of university was Liverpool, where he excelled in the Department of Geology. He attained a first-class honors degree in geology in 1971 and was awarded the Department's P.G.H. Boswell Prize in sedimentology. Ron stayed at Liverpool for his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Patrick J. Brenchley. Ron's thesis, completed in the then quick time of three years, was entitled 'Geology of the south Berwyn Hills, North Wales, with particular reference to Upper Ordovician marine benthic communities' (Pickerill 1974). The Lower Palaeozoic of North Wales and the Berwyn Hills, in particular, were the first of three geographic regions in which Ron's scholarly application made its mark. Ron and Pat formed a strong student-supervisor team. Pat was a geologist with unusually broad interests in Lower Palaeozoic geology and who was the consummate field man (Donovan et al. 2011), features he shared with Ron. Pat's friends will remember him for his smile, his wise council and his deep insight, which counterbalanced Ron's sometimes more mercurial approach. There was a tale told in Liverpool of Ron and Pat appearing in 'The Stag's Head', which was round the corner from the Department of Geology (but, sadly, since demolished), just after 5.00 p.m., opening time. One found a table, pulled out an A4 pad of paper and started to write; the other bought two pints of bitter. As they supped the first taste of bitter, the writer passed the pad on to the bringer of sustenance, who carried on the writing. Backward and forward the pad of paper went, more (and more) pints were bought (and consumed), and by closing time Ron and Pat had the first handwritten draft of a joint research paper. Ron told another tale of those same times. The major Pickerill and Brenchley (1979) examination of the paleoecology of the Caradoc of the Berwyn Hills received a critical review, by a referee who did not recognize their abilities as systematists, noting that they were neither a Whittington nor a Cooper. It was Pat who calmed the pugnacious Ron down when he wanted to ask the editor who the referee was referring towas it Dick Whittington, the legendary Lord Mayor of London, and the boxer Henry Cooper?!
Trent, England, and was a true son of the district known as the Potteries, made internationally famous by the ceramics industry (Royal Doulton, Wedgwood), by the novels of Arnold Bennett and by the skills of its greatest footballing progeny, Sir Stanley Matthews. Ron was himself a considerable football (soccer) talent, cricketer (England Schoolboys) and accomplished rock-band drummer. In his late teens, he was torn between 'signing forms' with his beloved Stoke City F.C., signing a record deal with EMI (the 'Beatles' label) or going to university. It was his mother's wise head who argued convincingly that he should take the academic path. Ron's choice of university was Liverpool, where he excelled in the Department of Geology. He attained a first-class honors degree in geology in 1971 and was awarded the Department's P.G.H. Boswell Prize in sedimentology. Ron stayed at Liverpool for his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Patrick J. Brenchley. Ron's thesis, completed in the then quick time of three years, was entitled 'Geology of the south Berwyn Hills, North Wales, with particular reference to Upper Ordovician marine benthic communities' (Pickerill 1974). The Lower Palaeozoic of North Wales and the Berwyn Hills, in particular, were the first of three geographic regions in which Ron's scholarly application made its mark. Ron and Pat formed a strong student-supervisor team. Pat was a geologist with unusually broad interests in Lower Palaeozoic geology and who was the consummate field man (Donovan et al. 2011), features he shared with Ron. Pat's friends will remember him for his smile, his wise council and his deep insight, which counterbalanced Ron's sometimes more mercurial approach. There was a tale told in Liverpool of Ron and Pat appearing in 'The Stag's Head', which was round the corner from the Department of Geology (but, sadly, since demolished), just after 5.00 p.m., opening time. One found a table, pulled out an A4 pad of paper and started to write; the other bought two pints of bitter. As they supped the first taste of bitter, the writer passed the pad on to the bringer of sustenance, who carried on the writing. Backward and forward the pad of paper went, more (and more) pints were bought (and consumed), and by closing time Ron and Pat had the first handwritten draft of a joint research paper. Ron told another tale of those same times. The major Pickerill and Brenchley (1979) examination of the paleoecology of the Caradoc of the Berwyn Hills received a critical review, by a referee who did not recognize their abilities as systematists, noting that they were neither a Whittington nor a Cooper. It was Pat who calmed the pugnacious Ron down when he wanted to ask the editor who the referee was referring towas it Dick Whittington, the legendary Lord Mayor of London, and the boxer Henry Cooper?!
The Queenston Formation: shale-dominated, mixed terrigenous-carbonate deposits of Upper Ordovician, semiarid, muddy shores in Ontario, Canada
The Upper Ordovician Queenston Formation constitutes the westernmost part of the Taconic clastic wedge of eastern North America. In Ontario, the Queenston Formation consists of a mixed terrigenous-carbonate succession composed primarily of red silty shales, which are locally gypsiferous, alternating, in the middle and lower parts of the formation, with thin grey shales, calcareous siltstone and sandstone, and bioclastic limestone. Brachiopods, some ostracodes, and, in the lower beds, bryozoans constitute the body fossil assemblage. Diplocraterion, Skolithos, Chondrites, and occasional large vertical burrows of unknown origin form the ichnofauna. Plane beds, ripple marks, and occasional swaley and hummocky cross-stratifications are present in the calcareous units. Mudcracks, gypsum nodules, occasional halite hopper casts, and gilgai-like structures typically occur in horizons where shales alternate with siltstone and limestone. These features are indicative of prograding muddy and storm- and tide-affected shores. In southernmost Ontario, the upper part of the formation is mostly composed of a red shale, with local recognizable shale-filled channels. This shale is of paralic origin, and it is truncated by the unconformity separating the Ordovician from the Silurian units in this region. This last event may, in part, be related to a eustatic sea-level drop due to the contemporaneous Saharan glaciation, if not exclusively due to tectonic movements.
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