Scottish Silurian shorelines

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 479-487

  Clarkson, Euan N K ^a   Harper, David A T ^b   Taylor, Cecilia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Knockgardner; lagoon; marine regression; North Esk Inlier; offshore bar

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION; SEDIMENTATION; SHORELINE; SILURIAN;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034881437     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300008324     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Barnes R. S. K. 1980. Coastal Lagoons, Cambridge Studies in Modern Biology 1. Cambridge University Press.
2. Batchelor R. A. 1999. Metabentonites from the Silurian inliers of the southern Midland Valley of Scotland: distribution and geochemistry. Scottish Journal of Geology 35, 71–7.
3. Batchelor R. A. & Clarkson E. N. K. 1993. Geochemistry of a Silurian metabentonite and associated apatite from the North Esk Inlier, Pentland Hills. Scottish Journal of Geology 29, 123–30.
4. Bull E. E. & Loydell D. K. 1995. Uppermost Telychian graptolites from the North Esk Inlier, Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh. Scottish Journal of Geology 31, 163–70.
5. Clarkson E. N. K., Harper D. A. T. & Höey A. N. 1998. Basal Wen-lock biofacies from the Girvan District, SW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 34, 61–71.
6. Clarkson E. N. K. & Taylor C. M. 1989. The Deerhope Coral Bed, a unique horizon in the Silurian of the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh. Abstracts, Murchison Symposium, University of Keele, 37–8. Keele, Staffordshire: University of Keele.
7. Clifton H. E., Hunter R. E. & Phillips R. L. 1971. Depositional structures and processes in the non-barred high-energy nearshore. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 41, 651–70.
8. Davis R. A. (ed.) 1978. Coastal sedimentary environments. New York: Springer.
9. Elliott T. 1986. Siliclastic shorelines. In Sedimentary Environments and Facies (2nd edn), pp. 155–88. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
10. Harper D. A. T., Scrutton C. T. & Williams D. M. 1995. Mass mortalities on an Irish sea floor. Journal of the Geological Society, London 152, 917–22.
11. Kraft J. C., Chrzastowski M. J., Belknap D. F., Toscano M. & Fletcher C. H. 1987. The transgressive barrier-lagoon coast of Delaware; morphostratigraphy, sedimentary sequences and responses to relative rise in sea level. In Nummedal D., et al(eds) Sea-level fluctuation and coastal evolution, S. E. P. M. Special Publication 41, 129–43.
12. Lovelock C. E. 1998. The sedimentary environments and biofacies of the Silurian inlier at Lesmahagow, Midland Valley of Scotland (Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of Edinburgh).
13. McGiven A. 1967. Sedimentation and provenance of post-Valentian conglomerates up to and including the basal conglomerate of the Lower Old Red sandstone in the southern part of the Midland Valley of Scotland (Unpublished Ph. D. Thesis, University of Glasgow).
14. Merriman R. J. & Roberts B. 1990. Metabentonites in the Moffat Shale Group, Southern Uplands of Scotland; geochemical evidence of ensialic marginal basin volcanism. Geological Magazine 127, 259–71.
15. O'Connor P. D. & Williams D. M. 1999. Tectonic control on sedimentation during transgression: a case study from Silurian successions in Ireland and Scotland. Geological Magazine 136, 75–82.
16. Paterson I. D., McAdam A. D. & MacPherson K. A. T. 1998. Geology of the Hamilton District. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Sheet 23W (Scotland), 1–94. London: The Stationery Office.
17. Peach B. N. & Home J. 1899. The Silurian Rocks of Britain, Volume 1. Scotland. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. Glasgow: HMSO.
18. Phillips E. R., Smith A. A. & Carroll S. 1998. Strike-slip, terrane accretion and the pre-Carboniferous evolution of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 89, 209–204.
19. Robertson G. 1985. Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills (Unpublished Ph. D. Thesis, University of Edinburgh).
20. Robertson G. 1989. A palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Silurian rocks in the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 80, 127–42.
21. Robertson G. 1999. Upper Llandovery associations in the Pentland Hills, Scotland. In Boucot A. J. & Lawson J. D. Paleocom-munities—a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian, World Regional Geology Series 11, pp. 408–18. Cambridge University Press.
22. Rolfe W. D. I. 1960. The Silurian Inlier of Carmichael, Lanarkshire. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 64, 245–60.
23. Rolfe W. D. I. 1961. The geology of the Hagshaw Hills Silurian inlier, Lanarkshire. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society 18, 240–69.
24. Siveter D. J., Owens R. M. & Thomas A. T. 1989. Silurian field excursions; a geotraverse across Wales and the Welsh Borderland, National Museum of Wales, Geological Series 10, 1–133.
25. Smith R. A. 1995. The Siluro-Devonian evolution of the southern Midland Valley of Scotland. Geological Magazine 132, 503–13.
26. Tipper J. C. 1974. Lower Silurian animal communities—three case histories. Lethaia 8, 15–25.
27. Tipper J. C. 1976. The stratigraphy of the North Esk Inlier, Midlothian, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 12, 15–25.
28. Williams D. M. & Harper D. A. T. 1988. A basin model for the Silurian of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London 145, 741–8.
29. Williams D. M. & Harper D. A. T. 1991. End-Silurian modifications of Ordovician terranes in western Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, London 149, 165–71.
30. Ziegler A. M., Cocks L. R. M. & Bambach R. K. 1968. The composition and structure of Lower Silurian marine communities. Lethaia 1, 1–27.