Reinterpretation of James Hutton's historic discovery on the Isle of Arran as a double unconformity masked by a phreatic calcrete hardpan

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-150

  Jutras, Pierre ^a   Young, Grant M ^b   Caldwell, W Glen E ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCKS; BELONG TO; CALCRETES; HOST MATERIALS; LATE DEVONIAN; LOWER PALEOZOIC; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PHREATIC; RED BED; SCOTLAND; UPPER PALEOZOIC;

STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CALCRETE; CONGLOMERATE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; RED BED; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; TRANSGRESSION; UNCONFORMITY;

ARRAN; NORTH AYRSHIRE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78851472344     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31490.1     Document Type: Article

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