A braidplain facies model for the Westphalian B Coal Measures of north-east England

Nature ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 284 (5751) ◽  
pp. 51-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Haszeldine ◽  
R. Anderton
Keyword(s):  
Facies Model ◽  
North East ◽  
Coal Measures

A ?braidplain facies model for the Westphalian B Coal Measures of north-east England (reply)

Nature ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 287 (5777) ◽  
pp. 88-88
Author(s):  
R. S. HASZELDINE ◽  
R. ANDERTON
Keyword(s):  
Facies Model ◽  
North East ◽  
Coal Measures

A ?braidplain facies model for the Westphalian B Coal Measures of north-east England

Nature ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 287 (5777) ◽  
pp. 87-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN P. HEWARD ◽  
CHRIS R. FIELDING
Keyword(s):  
Facies Model ◽  
North East ◽  
Coal Measures

scholarly journals II.—The Hill of Beath, a Volcanic Neck in Fife

1909 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
J. S. Grant Wilson ◽  
H. Brantwood Muff
Keyword(s):  
Intrusive Rock ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Carboniferous Limestone

The Hill of Beath, which lies 3 miles to the north-east of Dunfermline, Fife, is an isolated hill with steep, but rounded, contours, and rises fully 250 feet above the surrounding plateau. Whilst the hill itself consists of dark grey tuff, the rocks forming the plateau belong to the Coal-measures of the Carboniferous Limestone series. The latter are thrown into gentle anticlines and synclines, the dip on the limbs of the folds usually lying between 10 and 15 degrees. The outcrop of the tuff has the form of an ellipse, the long axis of which trends east and west and measures nearly 1,000 yards, whilst the breadth of the ellipse is rather more than 500 yards. The distribution of the outcrops of the Carboniferous rocks around the hill and the evidence from the coal workings show that the tuff is not interbedded with the sediments, but that it breaks through them somewhat like an intrusive rock. Sir Archibald Geikie recognized that the Hill of Beath was a volcanic neck, and this view has been confirmed by recent mining operations in a conclusive manner.

scholarly journals VI.—On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields

1889 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Small Extent ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
North East ◽  
Extreme North ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
Coal Fields

On the Fossil Plants collected during the Sinking of the Shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, near Birmingham.The area comprised in the county of Stafford embraces five coal fields—I. The Goldsitch Moss Coal Field, in the extreme north-east of the county.II. The Cheadle and Churnet Valley Coal Field.III. The Wetley and Shafferlong Coal Field.IV. The Coal Field of the Potteries.V. The South Staffordshire Coal Field.The three first mentioned are of small extent, and as I know little of their fossil flora they are omitted from this series of papers on the Carboniferous Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields.I, however, devote a separate communication to the fossil plants met with while sinking the shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, as a considerable part of the rocks passed through during this operation is clearly Upper Coal Measures, not Permian, as has been generally stated. The palæontological evidence, therefore, becomes of special importance in determining the age of the red shales occurring in the upper part of this sinking, which have been usually mapped as Permian.

The Avonian of Cannington Park, near Bridgwater, Somerset

1924 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 218-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. S. Wallis
Keyword(s):  
North East ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
The Village ◽  
Final Acceptance ◽  
Interesting Area ◽  
Carboniferous Limestone

This small, though extremely interesting area of Carboniferous Limestone is situated about 4 miles north-east of Bridgwater and ¾ mile north-east of the village of Cannington.For several reasons it has attracted a large number of workers. Fossils are scarce (at first the mass was thought to be unfossiliferous), and hence for a long time the “Devonian or Carboniferous” question of age was a bone of contention. Also, the final acceptance of its Avonian age showed that productive Coal Measures were probably deposited in the area between the Mendips and the Quantock Hills.

Facies model of a mixed clastic–carbonate, wave‐dominated open‐coast tidal flat (Tithonian–Berriasian, north‐east Spain)

Sedimentology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1631-1666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Bádenas ◽  
Marcos Aurell ◽  
José M. Gasca
Keyword(s):  
Tidal Flat ◽  
Facies Model ◽  
Open Coast ◽  
North East

IX,—A Gravity Survey of the Sanquhar Coalfield

1961 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam C. McLean
Keyword(s):  
Relative Density ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Gravity Survey ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
Bouguer Anomalies ◽  
North East ◽  
Local Gravity ◽  
Calculated Effect ◽  
Coal Measures

SynopsisIn the Sanquhar district a bsain of relatively light Upper Carboniferous rocks (relative density 2·54) overlies a denser basement of Ordovician greywackes (relative density 2·72). A gravity survey over the area with coverage of approximately one station per square kilometre, increasing to a station spacing of 100 yards along certain traverses in critical localities, shows a close relation between the Bouguer anomalies and the known geology. A local gravity low over the Carboniferous outcrop is superimposed on a steep regional gradient decreasing south-eastwards. The trend of this gradient is parallel to the strike of the Ordovician rocks, but its exact relationship to the basement structure is not clear. The residual Bouguer anomalies reflect the structure of the Carboniferous rocks; in the south-eastern part of the basin they agree closely with the calculated effect produced by the known thicknesses, structure, and density contrast. Westwards from Kirkconnel, however, there is an increasing discrepancy between the observed and the theoretical anomalies, a discrepancy which indicates the presence of an additional mass of light rock concealed under the known Coal Measures. It is inferred that this material consists of older Carboniferous strata, thickest under the present-day valley of the Nith but concealed by overstep of the overlying Coal Measures against the flanks of the basin. These hidden rocks thin gradually to the south-east across a shallow monocline with north-east trend and south-east of Kirkconnel are truncated by a large fault trending east-north-east. Both the monocline and the fault appear to affect the Westphalian strata to a lesser degree than the base of the Carboniferous rocks.The stratigraphical significance of the concealed strata is that they evince the existence of a pre-Westphalian basin, trending north-west-south-east, which antecedes the later Hercynian fold, and also suggest that pre-Hercynian movements took place along a fault, near Kirkconnel which, trends north-east-south-west across the basin.

scholarly journals High selenium in the Carboniferous Coal Measures of Northumberland, North East England

2018 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam A. Bullock ◽  
John Parnell ◽  
Magali Perez ◽  
Joseph G. Armstrong ◽  
Joerg Feldmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North East ◽  
High Selenium ◽  
Coal Measures

scholarly journals II.—On the Highest Coal-measures or “Zone” of Anthracomya Phillipsi in the Durham Coalfield

1919 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 203-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Trechmann ◽  
D. Woolacott
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
The Town ◽  
North And South

It has been known for some considerable time that the highest beds of the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield lie approximately beneath the town of Sunderland. The great syncline of the Coalmeasures of this area is distinctly accentuated in North-East Durham, so that a secondary basin-like depression is formed, in the centre of which these high beds occur. Beneath Sunderland, -where the top layers also exist, the Carboniferous rocks are concealed by the overlying Permian strata, but at a place called Claxheugh on the Wear, about two miles west of Sunderland, the Coal-measures are exposed for a short distance on both the north and south banks of the river.

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