Warwickshire group (Pennsylvanian) red-beds of the Canonbie Coalfield, England-Scotland border, and their regional palaeogeographical implications

Geological Magazine

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-77

  Jones, Neil S ^a,b   Holliday, Douglas W ^a,c   McKervey, John A ^a,d  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^c 16 Harvard House ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d 16 Harvard House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canonbie; Carboniferous; correlation; red beds; sedimentology

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; CORRELATION METHODS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

ALLUVIAL PLAINS; CANONBIE; CARBONIFEROUS; CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS; RED BED; SANDSTONE FORMATIONS; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA; WOOD FORMATION;

SANDSTONE;

CARBONIFEROUS; FLOODPLAIN; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OUTCROP; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RIVER SYSTEM; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM; WARWICKSHIRE;

EID: 79951772400     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675681000035X     Document Type: Article

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