Page 6 - An Atlas of Carboniferous Basin Evolution in Northern England

Contents

Acknowledgements v LCIsequence 17 Inversion megasequence 47
LC2 sequence 19 Sequence V: inversion (late Westphalian C-early Permian) 47
Chapter 1 Gainsborough Trough 19
Introduction 1 Edale Gulf 19 Chapter 5
Rationale 1 Bowland/Craven Basin 20 Play fairway analysis 51
Atlas layout 4 Leeds Basin 24 Introduction 51
Database 4 Cleveland Basin 24 Early syn-rift clastic play 51
Stainmore Trough 24 Syn-rift carbonate plays 51
Chapter 2 Northumberland Trough-Solway Basin 24 Carbonate platform margin play 51
Regional structural framework 5 Tectono-sedimentary synthesis 25 Secondary carbonate plays 53
The Caledonides of northern England 5 Clastic delta play 55
Variscan plate cycle 5 Chapter 4 Trap geometry 56
Variscan extension 7 Palaeogeography and facies evolution 27 Trap-Hydrocarbon charge timing relationships 59
Variscan compression 7 Overview 27 Post-rift Carboniferous factors 59
Variscan structures of northern England 10 Syn-rift megasequence 27 End Carboniferous Variscan inversion 59
Overview of Carboniferous tectono-stratigraphy 10 Sequence EC1: early syn-rift I (late Devonian-earliest Dinantian) 27 Permo-Triassic extension 59
Sequence EC1: late syn-rift I (Courceyan) 27 Jurassic-Cretaceous subsidence and local inversion 62
Chapter 3 Sequence EC2: post-rift I (Chadian) 30 Cenozoic uplift and erosion 62
Carboniferous basin development 13 Sequence EC3: syn-rift II (late Chadian-Holkerian) 30 Play assessment: summary 62
Widmerpool Gulf 13 Sequence EC4: post-rift II (late Holkerian-mid Asbian) 30
Pre-rift 13 Sequence EC5: syn-rift III (late Asbian-early Brigantian) 36 Chapter 6
EC1 sequence 13 Sequence EC6: post-rift III (early-mid Brigantian) 37 Summary 71
EC2 sequence 13 Post-rift megasequence 37
EC3 sequence 16 Sequence LCI a: post-rift (late Brigantian-early Pendleian) 37 References 73
EC4 sequence 16 Sequence LClb: post-rift (late Pendleian-Alportian) 41
EC5 sequence 17 Sequence LClc: post-rift (Kinderscoutian-early Westphalian A) 41 Index 77
EC6 sequence 17 Sequence LC2: post-rift (late Westphalian A-Westphalian C) 47