| Reference Type | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
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| Title | Arenig sedimentation and basin tectonics in the Harlech Dome area (Dolgellau Basin), North Wales |
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| Journal | Geological Magazine |
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| Authors | John-Joe, Traynor | Author |
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| Year | 1990 (January) | Volume | 127 |
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| Issue | 1 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| DOI | doi:10.1017/s0016756800014138Search in ResearchGate |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 254502 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:254502:2 |
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| Full Reference | John-Joe, Traynor (1990) Arenig sedimentation and basin tectonics in the Harlech Dome area (Dolgellau Basin), North Wales. Geological Magazine, 127 (1) 13-30 doi:10.1017/s0016756800014138 |
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| Plain Text | John-Joe, Traynor (1990) Arenig sedimentation and basin tectonics in the Harlech Dome area (Dolgellau Basin), North Wales. Geological Magazine, 127 (1) 13-30 doi:10.1017/s0016756800014138 |
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| In | (1990, January) Geological Magazine Vol. 127 (1) Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| Abstract/Notes | AbstractArenig (Ordovician) clastic sediments crop out in the Harlech Dome region (North Wales), and are placed in a single stratigraphic unit: the Allt Lwyd Formation. This unit records a marine transgression onto an erosion surface produced during late Tremadoc arc volcanicity. Four discrete petrofacies are denned, and reflect differing proportions of detritus derived from Tremadoc-type basic-intermediate igneous rocks, and the local sedimentary basement. Initial shallow marine siliciclastic sandstones and conglomerates are overlain by extensive deep water mud-rich units. These generally shallow up into a complex arc-apron deposit, with sediments derived from the eroding Tremadoc arc, as well as from similar, synchronous volcanics. Predominantly epiclastic sandstones and conglomerates were deposited in deltaic and tidal environments in an arc-apron complex, and capped by condensed mudstones and an ironstone, deposited as sea level rose across these systems. Sediments were ponded in north–south orientated troughs and derived from uplifted blocks. Facies and petrofacies distribution were controlled by syn-sedimentary north-south and northeast–southwest faults. The Allt Lwyd Formation was ponded in a fault-controlled basin (the Dolgellau Basin), one of a series of interconnected sub-basins flooded by the Arenig transgression. The sediments preserved reflect deposition during the transgression of a volcanic arc, prior to the extrusion of marginal basin-type volcanics. |
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