Modelling ancient tides: The Upper Carboniferous epi-continental seaway of Northwest Europe

Sedimentology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 715-735

  Wells, Martin R ^a   Allison, Peter A ^a   Hampson, Gary J ^a   Piggott, Matthew D ^a   Pain, Christopher C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclic rhythmites; Epi continental seas; Finite element modelling; Tidal sediments; Upper Carboniferous

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INLAND SEA; TIDAL RANGE;

EID: 18844402689     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2005.00718.x     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Aitkenhead, N. and Riley, N.J. (1996) Kinderscoutian and Marsdenian successions in the Bradup and Hag Farm boreholes, near Ilkley, west Yorkshire. Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc., 51, 115-125.
2. Alekseev, A.S., Kononova, L.I. and Nikishin, A.M. (1996) The Devonian and Carboniferous of the Moscow Syneclise (Russian Platform): stratigraphy and sea-level changes. Tectonophysics, 268, 149-168.
3. Allen, J.R.L. (1982) Mud drapes in sand-wave deposits: physical model with application to the Folkstone Beds (Early Cretaceous, southeast England). Philos. Trans. R. Soc., A306, 291-345.
4. Allen, P.A. (1997) Earth Surface Processes. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
5. Allison, P.A., Ford, R. and Corfield, R.M. (1998) Stratification and oxygen isotopes in the Paleozoic: is paleothermometry in hot water? Stable isotopes in geology. Palaeontol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 4, 244-254.
6. Archer, A.W. and Hubbard, M.S. (2003) Highest tides of the world. In: Extreme Depositional Environments: Mega End Members in Geological Time (Eds M. Chan and A.W. Archer), Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper, 370, 151-173.
7. Archer, A.W. and Kvale, E.P. (1997) Discussion of "Kinderscoutian and Marsdenian successions in the Bradup and Hag Farm boreholes, near Ilkley, West Yorkshire". Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc., 51, 373-374.
8. Austin, W.E.N. and Scourse, J.D. (1997) Evolution of seasonal stratification in the Celtic Sea during the Holocene. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154, 249-256.
9. Blakey, R. (2003) Global Plate Tectonics and Paleogeography. Northern Arizona University, URL: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/RCB.html.
10. Bloxam, T.W. and Thomas, R.L. (1969) Palaeontological and geochemical facies in the Gastrioceras subcrenatum marine-band and associated rocks from the North Crop of the South Wales Coalfield. Q. J. Geol. Soc. London, 124, 239-281.
11. Brett, C.E, Boucot, A.J. and Jones, B. (1993) Absolute depths of Silurian benthic assemblages. Lethaia, 26, 25-40.
12. Brettle, M.J., Mcilroy, D., Elliott, T., Davies, S.J. and Waters, C.N. (2002) Identifying cryptic tidal influences within deltaic successions: an example from the Marsdenian (Namurian) interval of the Pennine Basin. UK J. Geol. Soc. London, 159, 379-391,
13. Church, K.D. and Gawthorpe, R.L. (1994) High resolution sequence stratigraphy of the late Namurian in the Widmerpool Gulf (East Midlands, UK). Mar. Petrol. Geol., 11, 528-544.
14. Collinson, J.D. (1988) Controls on Namurian sedimentation in the Central Province basins of northern England. In: Sedimentation in a Synorogenic Basin Complex: the Upper Carboniferous of Northwest Europe (Eds B.M. Besly and G. Kelling), pp. 85-101. Blackie, Glasgow.
15. Cook, T.D. and Bally, A.W. (1975) Stratigraphic atlas of North and Central America. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
16. Cope, J.C.W., Guion, P.D., Sevastopulo, G.D. and Swan, A.R.H. (1992) Carboniferous. In: Atlas of Palaeogeography and Lithofacies (Eds J.C.W. Cope, J.K. Ingham and P.F. Rawson), Geol. Soc. London Mem., 13, 67-86.
17. Crowley, T.J. and Baum, S.K. (1991) Estimating Carboniferous sea-level fluctuations from Gondwanan ice extent. Geology, 19, 975-977.
18. Dalrymple, R.W. (1992) Tidal depositional systems. In: Facies Models: Response to Sea Level Change (Eds R.G. Walker and N.P. James), pp. 195-218. Geological Association of Canada, St Johns.
19. Davies, S.J. and Gibling, M.R. (2003) Architecture of coastal and alluvial deposits in an extensional basin: the Carboniferous Joggins Formation of eastern Canada. Sedimentology, 50, 415-439.
20. Davies, S.J., Hampson, G.J., Flint, S.S. and Elliott, T. (1999) Continental-scale sequence stratigraphy of the Namurian, Upper Carboniferous and its application to reservoir prediction. In: Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceeding of the 5th Conference (Eds A.J. Fleet and S.A.R. Boldy), pp. 757-770. The Geological Society, London.
21. Desai, S.D. and Wahr, J.M. (1995) Empirical ocean tide models estimated from TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetry. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 25205-25228.
22. Dickie, J.O., Bender, P.L., Faller, J.E., Newhall, X.X., Wiant, R.L., Williams, J.G. and Yoder, C.F. (1994) Lunar laser ranging: a continuing legacy of the Apollo program. Science, 265, 482-490.
23. Egbert, G.D. and Ray, R.D. (2000) Significant dissipation of tidal energy in the deep ocean inferred from satellite altimeter data. Nature, 405, 775-778.
24. Ericksen, M.C. and Slingerland, R. (1990) Numerical simulations of tidal and wind-driven circulation in the Cretaceous Interior Seaway of North America. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 102, 1499-1516.
25. Ford, R., Pain, C.C., Figgott, M.D., Goddard, A.J.H., de Oliveira, C.R.E. and Umpleby, A.P. (2004) A non-hydrostatic finite-element model for three-dimensional stratified oceanic flows. Part I: Model formulation. Monthly Weather Rev., 132, 2816-2831.
26. Greb, S.F. and Archer, A.W. (1995) Rhythmic sedimentation in a mixed tide and wave deposit, Hazel Patch Sandstone (Pennsylvania), Eastern Kentucky Coal Field. J. Sed. Res., B65, 96-106.
27. Greb, S.F. and Archer, A.W. (1998) Annual sedimentation cycles in rhythmites of carboniferous tidal-channels. In: Tidalites: Processes and Products (Eds C.R. Alexander, R.A. Davies and V.J. Henry), SEPM Spec. Publ., 61, 75-83.
28. Guion, F.D., Gutteridge, P. and Davies, S. (2000) Carboniferous sedimentation and volcanism on the Laurussian margin. In: Geological History of Britain and Ireland (Eds N. Woodcock and R. Strachan), pp, 227-270. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
29. Hallam, A. (1981) Facies Interpretation and the Stratigraphic Record. W.H. Freeman and Company Limited, Oxford.
30. Hampson, G.J., Elliott, T. and Davies, S.J. (1997) The application of sequence stratigraphy to Upper Carboniferous fluvio-deltaic strata of the onshore UK and Ireland: implications for the Southern North Sea. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154, 719-733.
31. Hampson, G.J., Davies, S.J., Elliott, T., Flint, S.S. and Stollhofen, H. (1999) Incised valley fill sandstone bodies in Upper Carboniferous fluvio-deltaic strata: recognition and reservoir characterization of Southern North Sea analogues. In: Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceeding of the 5th Conference (Eds A.J. Fleet and S.A.R. Boldy), pp. 771-788. The Geological Society, London.
32. Hide, R. and Dickie, J.O. (1991) Earth's variable rotation. Science, 253, 629-637.
33. Higgs, R., Reading, H.G. and Burne, R.V. (1998) Return of The fan that never was'; Westphalian turbidite systems in the Variscan Culm Basin; Bude Formation (south-west England); discussion and reply. Sedimentology, 45, 961-975.
34. Holdsworth, B.K. and Collinson, J.D. (1988) Millstone Grit cyclicity revisited. In: Sedimentation in a Synorogenic Basin Complex: the Upper Carboniferous of Northwest Europe (Eds B.M. Besly and G. Kelling), pp. 132-152. Blackie, Glasgow.
35. Howarth, M.J. (1982) Tidal currents of the continental shelf. In: Offshore Tidal Sands: Processes and Deposits (Ed. A.H. Stride), pp. 10-19. Chapman and Hall, UK.
36. Johnson, H.D. and Baldwin, C.T. (1996) Shallow clastic seas. In: Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy (Ed, H.G. Reading), 3rd edn, pp. 232-280. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
37. Johnson, H.D. and Levell, B.K. (1995) Sedimentology of a transgressive, estuarine sand complex: Lower Cretaceous Woburn Sands (Lower Greensand), southern England. In: Sedimentary Facies Analysis; a tribute to the research and teaching of Harold G. Reading (Ed. A.G. Plint), Int. Assoc. Sedimentol. Spec. Publ., 22, 17-46.
38. Kantha, L.H. (1995) Barotropic tides in the global oceans from a nonlinear tidal model assimilating altimetric tides, Part 1: Model description and results. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 25283-25308.
39. Kantha, L.H. and Clayson, C.A. (2000) Global tidal models. In: Numerical Models of Oceans and Oceanic Processes, pp. 429-433. International Geophysics Series, Academic Press, San Diego.
40. Kantha, L.H., Pontius, P.E. and Anantharaj, V. (2001) Tides in marginal, semi-enclosed and coastal seas - Part I: Sea surface height. Colorado University and the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (CU/NAVOCEANO) model. URL: http://www.ssc.erc.msstate.edu/Tides2D/table_contents. html.
41. Klein, G.deV. and Ryer, T.A. (1978) Tidal circulation patterns in Precambrian, Paleozoic, and Cretaceous epeiric and mioclinal shelf seas. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 89, 1050-1058.
42. Le Provost, C., Genco, M.L., Lyard, F., Vincent, P. and Canceill, P. (1994) Tidal spectroscopy of the world ocean tides from a finite element hydrodynamic model. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 24777-24798.
43. Leeder, M.R. (1988) Recent developments in Carboniferous geology: a critical review with implications for the British Isles and N.W. Eur. Proc. Geol. Assoc., 99, 73-100.
44. Leeder, M.R., Raiswell, R., Al-Biatty, H., McMahon, A. and Hardman, M. (1990) Carboniferous stratigraphy, sedimentation and correlation of well 48/3-3 in the southern North Sea Basin: integrated use of palynology, natural gamma/ sonic logs and carbon/sulphur geochemistry. J. Geol. Soc. London, 147, 287-300.
45. Martel, A.H., Allen, P.A. and Slingerland, R. (1994) Use of tidal-circulation modelling in palaeogeographic studies: an example from the Tertiary of the Alpine perimeter. Geology, 22, 925-928.
46. Maynard, J.R., Wignall, P.B. and Varker, W.J. (1991) A 'hot' new shale facies from the Upper Carboniferous of Northern England. J. Geol. Soc. London, 148, 805-808.
47. Nikishin, A.M., Ziegler, P.A., Stephenson, R.A., Cloetingh, S.A.P.L., Furne, A.V., Fokin, P.A., Ershov, A.V., Bolotov, S.N., Korotaev, M.V., Alekseev, A.S., Gorbachev, V.I., Shipilov, E.V., Lankreijer, A., Bembinova, E.Yu. and Shalimov, I.V. (1996) Late Precambrian to Triassic history of the East European Craton: dynamics of sedimentary basin evolution. Tectonophysics, 268, 23-63.
48. O'Mara, P.T., Merryweather, M., Stockwell, M. and Bowler, M.M. (1999) The Trent Gas Field: correlation and reservoir quality within a complex Carboniferous stratigraphy. In: Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceeding of the 5th Conference (Eds A.J. Fleet and S.A.R. Boldy), pp. 809-821. The Geological Society, London.
49. Oliveira, J.T. and Quesada, C. (1998) A comparison of stratigraphy, structure and palaeogeography of the South Portuguese Zone and south-west England, European Variscides. Geosci. South-west Engl., 9, 141-150.
50. Pain, C.C., Piggott, M.D., Goddard, A.J.H., Fang, F., Gorman, G., Marshall, D.P., Eaton, M.D., Power, P.W. and de Oliveira, C.R.E. (2005) Three-dimensional unstructured mesh ocean modelling. Ocean Modelling, 10, 5-33.
51. Percival, C.J. (1992) The Harthorpe Ganister - a transgressive barrier island to shallow-marine sand-ridge from the Namurian of Northern England, J. Sed. Petrol., 62, 442-454.
52. Piggott, M.D., Pain, C.C., Gorman, G.J., Power, P.W. and Goddard, A.J.H. (2005) h, r, and hr adaptivity with applications in numerical ocean modelling. Ocean Modelling, 10, 95-113.
53. Proust, J.N., Chuvashov, B.I., Vennin, E. and Boisseau, T. (1998) Carbonate platform drowning in a foreland setting: the Mid-Carboniferous Platform in Western Urals (Russia). J. Sed. Res., 68, 1175-1188.
54. Read, W.A. (1992) Evidence of tidal influences in Arnsbergian rhythmites in the Kincardine Basin. Scot. J. Geol., 28, 135-142.
55. Redfield, A.C. (1958) The influence of the continental shelf on the tides of the Atlantic Coast of the United States. J. Mar. Res., 17, 432-448.
56. Reineck, H.E. and Singh, I.B. (1980) Depositional Sedimentary Environments - With Reference to Terriginous Clastics, 2nd edn. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
57. Reynolds, A.D. (1999) Dimensions of paralic sandstone bodies. AAPG Bull., 83, 211-229.
58. Samuelsberg, T.J. and Pickard, N.A.H. (1999) Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian transgressive-regressive sequences of central Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway. Geol. J., 34, 393-411.
59. Scourse, J.D. and Austin, R.M. (1995) Palaeotidal modelling of continental shelves: marine implications of a land-bridge in the Strait of Dover during the Holocene and Middle Pleistocene. In: Island Britain: a Quaternary Perspective (Ed. R.C. Preece), Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 96, 75-88.
60. Shaw, D.P. (1964) Time in Stratigraphy, McGraw-Hill, New York.
61. Shi, Z. (1991) Tidal bedding and tidal cyclicities within the intertidal sediments of a microtidal estuary, Dyfl River Estuary, west Wales, U.K. Sediment. Geol., 73, 43-58.
62. Slater, R.D. (1985) A numerical model of tides in the Cretaceous Seaway of North America. J. Geol., 93, 333-345.
63. Slingerland, R. (1986) Numerical computation of co-oscillating palaeotides in the Catskill eperic Sea of eastern North America. Sedimentology, 33, 487-497.
64. Stride, A.H. (Ed.) (1982) Ofshore Tidal Sands: Processes and Deposits. Chapman and Hall, London, 222 pp.
65. Stupples, P. (2002) Tidal cycles preserved in late Holocene tidal rhythmites, the Wainway Channel, Romney Marsh, southeast England. Mar. Geol., 182, 231-246.
66. Tessier, B., Archer, A.W., Lanier, W.P. and Feldman, H.R. (1995) Comparison of ancient tidal rhythmites (Carboniferous of Kansas and Indiana, USA) with modern analogues (the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, France). Int. Assoc. Sedimentol. Spec. Publ., 24 259-271.
67. Vai, G.B. (2003) Development of the palaeogeography of Pangaea from Late Carboniferous to Early Permian. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 196, 125-155.
68. Veevers, J.J. and Powell, C.McA. (1987) Late Paleozoic glacial episodes in Gondwanaland reflected in transgressive-regressive depositional sequences in Euramerica. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 98, 475-487.
69. Wells, M.R., Allison, P.A., Piggott, M.D., Pain, C.C., Hampson, G.J. and de Oliveira, C.R.E. (2005) Large sea, small tides: the late Carboniferous seaway of northwest Europe. J. Geol. Soc. London, 162, 417-420.
70. Wignall, P.B. (1987) A biofacies analysis of the Gastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band (Namurian) of the central Pennines. Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc., 46, 111-121.
71. Wignall, P.B. and Maynard, J.R. (1996) High-resolution sequence stratigraphy in the early Marsdenian (Namurian, Carboniferous) of the central Pennines and adjacent areas. Proc. Yorks. Geol Soc., 51, 127-140.
72. Willis, B.J. and Gabel, S. (2001) Sharp-based, tide-dominated deltas of the Sego Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Utah, USA. Sedimentology, 48, 479-506.
73. Witzke, B.J. (1990) Palaeoclimatic constraints for Palaeozoic Palaeolatitudes of Laurentia and Euramerica. In: Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography (Eds W.S. McKerrow and C.R. Scotese), Geol. Soc. Mem., 12, 57-73.
74. Ziegler, P.A. (1990) Geological alas of Western and Central Europe, 2nd edn. Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij B.V., The Hague.