Northumberland Trough and Solway Basin

Waters, C.N.; Dean, M.T.; Jones, N.S.; Somerville, I.D.. 2011 Northumberland Trough and Solway Basin. In: Waters, Colin, (ed.) A revised correlation of Carboniferous rocks in the British Isles. Geological Society of London, 89-95.

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Abstract/Summary

Carboniferous rocks within this region occupy a broadly east–west graben, referred to as the Northumberland Trough within Northumberland (Bewcastle to the North Sea coast) and the Solway Basin in the vicinity of the Solway Firth, where much of the succession is obscured by Permo-Triassic strata (Fig. 13.1). The graben is bounded to the south by the Maryport-Stublick-Ninety Fathom Fault System, which forms the northern boundary of the Lake District and Alston blocks (see Chapter 12). The Carboniferous rocks are broadly separated from the Midland Valley of Scotland (Chapter 14), to the north, by the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Southern Uplands, which formed an emergent upland area throughout much of the Carboniferous, with local deposition within small basins. At the eastern onshore extent of the Southern Uplands a relatively condensed Carboniferous succession was deposited upon the Cheviot Block.

Item Type:	Publication - Book Section
Programmes:	BGS Programmes 2010 > Geology and Landscape (England)
Date made live:	10 Feb 2012 11:46 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16668

Item Type:

Publication - Book Section

Programmes:

BGS Programmes 2010 > Geology and Landscape (England)

Date made live:

10 Feb 2012 11:46 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16668